Having said that, I enjoyed studying theoretical CS at a hardcore-theoretical institution far, far more than I would have had I studied software engineering and learnt how to use test suites and agile and so on. I learnt version control from coding while studying, especially from OSS. I studied usability and had hands-on experience during an internship. I led a project team. My final year project was certainly more than 20 lines long. And yet I also did stuff like ML and BCPL and algorithmic design and complexity and crazy fun stuff like red-black trees and O-notation and quicksort and formal logic and markov chains and SVMs and Bayesian classification and god knows what else it was 2003. If I'd done the software engineering approach, my answer to 'how to implement quicksort' would be 'google', and I'd long since have abandoned 'Subversion 101' for something that actually hurt my brain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCPL - Appeared in: 1966
Having said that, I enjoyed studying theoretical CS at a hardcore-theoretical institution far, far more than I would have had I studied software engineering and learnt how to use test suites and agile and so on. I learnt version control from coding while studying, especially from OSS. I studied usability and had hands-on experience during an internship. I led a project team. My final year project was certainly more than 20 lines long. And yet I also did stuff like ML and BCPL and algorithmic design and complexity and crazy fun stuff like red-black trees and O-notation and quicksort and formal logic and markov chains and SVMs and Bayesian classification and god knows what else it was 2003. If I'd done the software engineering approach, my answer to 'how to implement quicksort' would be 'google', and I'd long since have abandoned 'Subversion 101' for something that actually hurt my brain.