[Novalug] Teaching Computers Science

[Miguel Gonzalez Castaños]

Dan Arico escribió:
> My daughter is thinking about doing a computer science major in college. We've 
> been looking over a lot of schools and I'm noticing a certain lack of 
> consistency in the way it's taught.
>
> Some schools have CS as a separate major, while others include it under math 
> or engineering. A few courses appear to be consistent from school to school, 
> but the programming languages vary wildly.
>
> I've found several schools that use Visual Basic. Others use Pascal. Most 
> include C/C++. A few include assembler, but most do not. I've even found one 
> that teaches COBOL.
>
> Anyone have some thoughts about what ought to be included?
>
> Dan Arico
>
>   
One advice that a friend of mine gave me a long time was that taking 
into account the current winds of offshoring and outsourcing to other 
countries, being stick to development could be quite risky. There might 
be a future where developments will be done as some other things in 
other countries. So they will come to your country and integrated, 
polished in your systems. My friend's advice was to have either a system 
administration background (there will be always a need to have someone 
locally) or to have an integrator background (both developer and 
administration backgrounds so you integrate what others do and fix issues).

I'm trying to follow the second advice

Miguel