The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store

Re:The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store by collyw on Monday February 11, 2019 @03:58AM (#19132978)

CS must teach at least some hardware, no?

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Re:The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store by crumpets on Monday February 11, 2019 @04:13AM (#19133039)

Not really. Hardware and machines that actually run algorithms are just an implementation detail. :)

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Re:The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store by zimpenfish on Monday February 11, 2019 @04:59AM (#19133227)

Anecdata: Mine did (CS, Manchester, 92-95). First year a certain amount of hardware was mandatory, second and onwards was optional (and I opted out.)

(Many people opted in because it gave you a chance to be lectured by Steve Furber and later work with him on 3rd year projects, IIRC.)

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Re:The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store by C1sc0cat on Monday February 11, 2019 @07:03AM (#19133799)

Also for years only Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial and UMIST where considered the truly good CS degrees.

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Re:The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store by TickleSteve on Monday February 11, 2019 @07:28AM (#19133906)

Manchester Uni CS certainly was partially hardware-based up until '97 or so.

Was doing CS, but plenty of hardware topics were available, such as creating your own processor on an FPGA, etc.

How can you possibly write good software without an appreciation of hardware??

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Re:The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store by jki275 on Monday February 11, 2019 @07:30AM (#19133917)

Certainly did in my program. Computer Org & Design has been a canonical part of CS for a long time.

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