I'd say some of the more important questions aren't about the CS Dept. at all, but of the Univeristy in general. My school got a taste of fame with all this computer mumbo-jumbo and quickly shifted funding and focus to it, leaving art, music, and drama suffering terribly. If you want to go to a Tech School, go to a Tech School. A University is supposed to be about a lot more than just your degree.
Perhaps everyone here is more or less correct. I kludged my way through computers from age 12 when mommy got a new one for her stint (re-stint, actually) in college. When DOOM on a 386 became tiresome, we learned to install RAM and configure HIMEM, etc. for optimum performance. When a 486 33mhz got invented, we learned how to install motherboards and learned the hard way to make sure they aren't grounded against the case. In high school we learned teachers know comparatively little as far as computers go, and volunteering as a lab tech on a Novell/NT network won't look too bad on a college app.
What I'm getting to here is that experience will get it done for you. A degree will get you through a door so you can get it done. I could go to work now for any computer company around here, but I have a feeling that a college degree, and to a greater extent, my up-and-coming high school diploma, are going to determine my hirability and/or salary. Yeah, I could run your Apache Linux webserver with the knowledge I have acquired and my library of O'Reilly books, but would you hire me to do it when you aren't sure if I've even gotten laid yet? A degree is necessary to get you hired. Your knowledge and ability to solve problems will keep you employed. Guess you gotta have both, or an uncle who works for Oracle.
This is obviously a patent for making excessive quantities of money. Good-bye Apple/IBM/Alpha/Amiga, hello cross-platform Linux. Read the very end of the patent file.
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Multiple SCOs would not have an apostrophe.
SCO doesn't OWN anything
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I'd say some of the more important questions aren't about the CS Dept. at all, but of the Univeristy in general.
My school got a taste of fame with all this computer mumbo-jumbo and quickly shifted funding and focus to it, leaving art, music, and drama suffering terribly.
If you want to go to a Tech School, go to a Tech School. A University is supposed to be about a lot more than just your degree.
What I'm getting to here is that experience will get it done for you. A degree will get you through a door so you can get it done. I could go to work now for any computer company around here, but I have a feeling that a college degree, and to a greater extent, my up-and-coming high school diploma, are going to determine my hirability and/or salary. Yeah, I could run your Apache Linux webserver with the knowledge I have acquired and my library of O'Reilly books, but would you hire me to do it when you aren't sure if I've even gotten laid yet? A degree is necessary to get you hired. Your knowledge and ability to solve problems will keep you employed. Guess you gotta have both, or an uncle who works for Oracle.
This is obviously a patent for making excessive quantities of money.
Good-bye Apple/IBM/Alpha/Amiga, hello cross-platform Linux. Read the very end of the patent file.