I went to UT around the time of the dot com crash. The curriculum was not always so Java-centric. It used to start out with Scheme, C++, and Assembler. I think

I went to UT around the time of the dot com crash. The curriculum was not always so Java-centric. It used to start out with Scheme, C++, and Assembler. I think it was a year or two afterwards that most courses started using Java for everything. As far as startups, I do remember most of us wanting to work at Dell or AMD when I was an EE undergrad there. We would all go to the career expo and put our resumes in these giant piles. Never hearing back from anyone led me to explore other opportunities.