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Not really. Hardware and machines that actually run algorithms are just an implementation detail. :)
by crumpets 8y ago
Not really. Hardware and machines that actually run algorithms are just an implementation detail. :)
- zimpenfish 8y agoAnecdata: 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.)
- C1sc0cat 8y agoAlso for years only Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial and UMIST where considered the truly good CS degrees.
- TickleSteve 8y agoManchester 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??