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What did you have when you were at Carnegie Mellon if I may ask!
by aerioux 10y ago
What did you have when you were at Carnegie Mellon if I may ask!
- intrasight 10y agoFirst, understand that there was no Computer Science degree back then - it was called "Applied Math". I think the courses available to undergrads were: 1. programming [A] 2. algorithms 3. operating systems 4. compiler design If you were lucky like me, and a graduating student bestowed upon you a coveted key to the graduate terminal room, then you could hack on those excellent DEC VT-100 terminals besides James Gosling, and buy bottles of Coke from what was perhaps the first vending machine connected to the internet. [A] Interesting in that it was a school-wide class that you were required to take and to pass. Programing was done in Pascal on a mini-computer-based IDE.
- aerioux 10y agoAh interesting :) You may be interested to know that (1) is still required, even for CFA people
- intrasight 10y agoAnd of that I approve