Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 08, 2007 12:59 AM
Yep, my university took that path for a while, too. The CompSci Dept. went from cc on UNIX to Microsoft's Visual C++ because of a large donation from Microsoft. However, that didn't teach them C/C++ programming; it taught them Windows programming--useless outside of the Windows environment. Our graduates were totally lost without the Microsoft IDE. *Other* companies started complaining and gradually stopped hiring our CompSci graduates....
That was not lost on the CompSci Dept. As a result, a few years later, they went to GCC on FreeBSD and brought back the original curriculum. Companies started hiring our graduates again.
Unfortunately, the MBA/MIS courses are still crack-addicted to VBA and Microsoft Office. Same with so-called "business classes" in high schools.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 08, 2007 12:59 AMThat was not lost on the CompSci Dept. As a result, a few years later, they went to GCC on FreeBSD and brought back the original curriculum. Companies started hiring our graduates again.
Unfortunately, the MBA/MIS courses are still crack-addicted to VBA and Microsoft Office. Same with so-called "business classes" in high schools.
The motto seems to be, "train, not teach."
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