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Suprised? Not I. While studying at the University of Wollongong, they were dumbing down the computer science courses to improve pass rates and keep more studen
by itcmcgrath 15y ago
Suprised? Not I.
While studying at the University of Wollongong, they were dumbing down the computer science courses to improve pass rates and keep more students (who probably shouldn't be doing Comp Sc anyway).
Two of my first year courses with C++ were split into three after I completed them with the harder content removed (such as abstract classes, inheritance, etc).
A lot of Universities are run like businesses now, rather than academic centers of excellence (at least in my humble opinion).
- cageface 15y agoInheritance is considered "hard" content in a C++ course? What do you talk about for a semester without it?
- hugh3 15y agoC?
- wiredfool 15y agoC++--?
- Someone 15y ago- Turing-completeness of templates (or does one need inheritance to get Turing-completeness?) - Exception-safety - Writing portable code (no, 'int' does not wrap around; chars are not ASCII, signed int is neither equal to in int nor to unsigned int, etc)
- cageface 15y agoIf inheritance is too hard I doubt template metaprogramming is on the syllabus.
- lhnz 15y agoThis I found at the University I went to, too. It made everything mind-numbingly boring and this was a shame because I actually enjoy learning and difficult problems. I ended up not going to a lot of lectures and learning and working on problems on my own at my own rate. I know that this is only certain universities though. Their are many academic institutions that have stuck by their values.
- dagw 15y agoWhat where the final year courses like, and what was the level of thesis work being done? Making the first year easier for people not coming in with a CS or programming background doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as they ramp it up towards the end.
- itcmcgrath 15y agoWell, they were pushing stuff out of first year and in to second year. They then moved stuff out of second year to cater for this (beyond this I wasn't there, so I cannot comment if it quite filtering down in the following years).