py wrote: > > Do you guys really think PHP should be in computer science curriculum? > > In my curriculum (in canada) I learned C/C++, Software Design (database > architecture and OO Design), SQL, Unix and Networks (OSI, TCP-IP and HTTP > mainly) > > There was no Perl, Python, PHP, ASP, JSP and even no VB... > I think it's more important to learn Programming than it is to learn PHP. I > know for a fact that some of our > teachers knew about PHP, but still they decide to teach the class in C. And > I happy they did. > > Now if your school has no PHP server, why don't you suggest and offer to > install it? > That's what we did, we made it run on a small machine on Linux first than > with the > help of the university sys admin, we installed it on a Unix server. The sys > admin is > now very happy to do his web stuff in PHP instead of Perl :) > > just my canadien 2 cents... (1.14 cent US ;) ) > py > > At 03:46 AM 1/18/2002 -0200, you wrote: > >Hello, > > > >Francesco Gallarotti wrote: > > > > > > I am a student in a college in NY state. Here we have several servers and > > > dozens of courses on computer science. No server is PHP ready and no course > > > instructor knows anything about PHP. Why do you think this is happening? I > > > really like PHP and I am using it in my personal website to work with some > > > text files and a small database. Why PHP is so not popular in the computer > > > science teaching area? > >
Most University CS departments prefer to teach programming using a more structured language with stronger type casting. It is much easier to move from a structured language to a language like perl or PHP than the reverse after graduation. At our university we offer special topics courses that are not on the curriculum when requested by students - courses on PHP perl visual basic. Maybe you should talk to the CS department head about special topic classes or department sponsored user discussion groups. -- Ron Clark System Administrator/Web Coordinator Armstrong Atlantic State University 11935 Abercorn Street Savannah, Ga 31419 Phone: 912 961 3234 Fax: 912 927 5353 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
