Stroustrup: What Should We Teach New Software Developers?

Re:Stroustrup: What Should We Teach New Software Developers? by baddox on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @03:09AM (#1011779)

I'm a CS major, and while I admittedly wasn't fully aware of what "computer science" entailed, I knew enough to know I wanted to study it. And I don't regret it.

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Re:Stroustrup: What Should We Teach New Software Developers? by Travis on Monday December 28, 2009 @11:22AM (#1018774)

Yeah, same here, except I graduated in 2004. I took CS from an engineering school, so I had a little less theoretical background (that was replaced with EE / CompE basics). But I agree -- I had exposure to big-O in h.s., but didn't realize that CS would involve so little programming (I probably wrote under 2k lines of code in 4 years, to be honest... but I was a slacker too ;) ).

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Re:Stroustrup: What Should We Teach New Software Developers? by andreyf on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @10:10AM (#1020563)

IMO, if one is to choose between theoretical background and EE/CompE, the latter is significantly more valuable. Of course, both are important.

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