[Edu-sig] re: College CS courses

[dajoy@softhome.net]

Computer "Science" is not engineering. Science is not technology.
As I see it CS has to do with data structures, algorithms, 
programming paradigms.

daniel

On 13 Apr 01, at 12:01, edu-sig-request@python.org wrote:

> We just want to know what's being taught, because so 
> far as we can tell it isn't computing as we know it.
> Most courses seem to only teach Java(*), don't cover much
> on operating systems, software engineering or indeed 
> anything to do with large scale computing.
> 
> Is this truly the current state of CS in academia or 
> are we just attracting the wrong grads?