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I am currently an undergrad at Berkeley. I really like the current structure of our computer science program. We start in Scheme for Intro to CS, move to Java f

I am currently an undergrad at Berkeley. I really like the current structure of our computer science program. We start in Scheme for Intro to CS, move to Java for data structures, and finish with C and MIPS for machine structures. After that, the upper division courses are either C++/Java/Python.

swolchok 17y ago
I'll be surprised if you tell me that the end result isn't usually undergraduates who can produce mediocre, unidiomatic code in any of 6 languages. (I've no personal experience with Berkeley grads, just general cynicism.)
- cema 17y ago
  This would be true for any undergraduate program. Quality of the people is more important than the quality of the material used for instruction.
- garnet7 17y ago
  Why? What do you see wrong with the Berkeley curriculum?
  - swolchok 17y ago
    cema had it right -- undergraduates in general like to optimize away their education.
    - garnet7 17y ago
      Ok. I think you mean that they'll spend their time learning the basics of 6 different languages without getting in-depth in any of them.