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> I don't think anyone went into UW Software Engineering > thinking they'd be doing ground-breaking CS theory. > (Pure math or physics, on the other hand...
by kps 12y ago
> I don't think anyone went into UW Software Engineering
> thinking they'd be doing ground-breaking CS theory.
> (Pure math or physics, on the other hand...)
Waterloo has a long-standing Computer Science department as part of the Faculty of Mathematics as well as a (comparatively recent) Software Engineering program in the Faculty of Engineering.
- jarek 12y agoThe post is about SE in particular so I mentioned that. Obviously a CS degree can be made much more theoretical, downright to co-op being optional as mentioned elsewhere. (BASc-MTE '10 so I know the backstories.)