Comments on: Exams are exciting

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:20:16 +0000

Oh, really. It seems to be Arabic by origin. So, a lot of Jewish should be Muslim instead. :P

By: Jordon Kalilich

Jordon Kalilich — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:21:11 +0000

Wikipedia says hummus is an Arab food that's very popular in Israel, so you're both right.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:39:11 +0000

About the last link… I won’t mention my result, ’cause it’s obvious, heh, but reading another questions was fun, and it seems like they confused about hummus… It’s a Jewish food, not Muslim. :P

By: Jordon Kalilich

Jordon Kalilich — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:23:52 +0000

You’re both right. I can see it both ways. Fortunately, I guess the worst is over as I’m really getting into my major now.

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:11:45 +0000

I hated taking the “core curriculum” classes as well. When I was majoring in Interior Design, was there a reason why I needed a lab science? (For the record, I changed my major to business, then liberal arts and somehow got my associate’s degree in the scheduled 2 years without taking a lab.) While I don’t doubt the need for a well-rounded education, I do think that a lot of the core classes could be cut back to make a bachelor’s degree a 3 year program instead of 4 and bringing higher education in the US more in line with the rest of the world.

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:59:46 +0000

It’s a bad advertising, but I always sigh while thinking about how many things I was taught and how little I did to be well-educated. However, they told us that university education shouldn’t give a strong knowledge of languages, which we should learn by ourselves; it gives a knowledge of principles, methods, patterns, theories, etc. But maybe those things differ in your case. Good luck with exams! :)

By: Jordon Kalilich

Jordon Kalilich — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:42:05 +0000

You win by far.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:35:00 +0000

We’re taught Java and C here, and expected to be quite fluent in both by the completion of our second year of classes. Also, shell scripting/basic sysadminnery. There’s a course taught on “Comparative Programming Languages”, which covers 3-4 languages, but they tend to be more of the academic type (i.e., Prolog). Our algorithms courses generally don’t even use a “language”, all assignments are pseudocoded. When they’re required to be programmed, C/C++ or Java is usually allowed. A good education in computer science is more than just fluency in a few languages. What you’re learning in your structures/algorithms course should be useful in any language (: