I agree. Better to go to a university that gives you a good solid foundation in computer science and then to specialize later on.
If you want to learn about *nix programming, why not pick a university whose courses show loyalty towards working on *nix platforms? At my alma mater (the University of Michigan), they started us off from the first year programming on Solaris and every Intel machine in the labs dual-booted with Linux. Its certainly a lot better than a school that only teaches you programming in MS VC++. Chris M. On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:23:45 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2004-06-23, Cecil penned: > > I'm headed back to school. But I had a thought after I considered why > > I wanted to go back to school. It would be totally cool if there was > > some sort of "Linux School". A 4 year or 6 year school, where you > > majored in... oh.. for example, Driver development. Or game > > programming. Or a specific language. Major in C++, and minor in > > assembly. Things like that. Major in a scripting language. Bash major, > > Perl minor. Am I just nuts or does this excite anyone else? Does it > > even exist? If it did, I'd go there, and not back to college. > > Majoring in languages makes no sense to me, unless you want to be > pigeonholed into one language for the rest of your life. Learn > concepts, not languages. > > Driver development, game programming, etc, would be great -- as > continued education programs, like a master's. You have to learn how to > design and code software before these kinds of courses will do any good. > > Just my opinion, since you asked. > > -- > monique > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Chris Metcalf [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://chrismetcalf.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
