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"Many of her friends in their third and fourth year in Temple’s computer science department haven’t written a line of code outside of basic Java, she said." Te
by fintler 11y ago
"Many of her friends in their third and fourth year in Temple’s computer science department haven’t written a line of code outside of basic Java, she said."
Temple CS '08 grad here. They had us writing C, lisp, and x86 asm (simple multiple precision arithmetic) in the first year. I think she's exaggerating a bit.
Java was introduced in the third and fourth years when they started on higher level data structures and abstractions.
- scott_s 11y agoThis exchange in the comments between another CS student at Temple and the subject of the article supports your observation: http://technical.ly/philly/2015/05/12/computer-science-dropout-becca-refford/#comment-2021441726 http://technical.ly/philly/2015/05/12/computer-science-dropo...
- Goladus 11y agoYes, it is a poor article by traditional standards. It appears the writer did no research at all other than her interview with the department chair (who conveniently appears to agree with the narrative, although it's hard to say whether quotes are taken out of context) edit: ps, where are the press hits in this article? http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html