[Tfug] CIS faculty at PCC west disavow existence of Linux classes

[Ammon Lauritzen]

kyle@grndzero.org wrote:

>>3)  The University of Arizona offers no "C" programming class.  I
>>don't know, maybe he just isn't aware of anything that happens outside
>>of his office.
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>No comment on this one. He told us a few times that he logged into a unix
>machine at the U to compile stuff occasionally. When I took his class it was
>transferrable to the U for credit. I heard rumors that the UoA was using
>java or c++ as an intro language, maybe that's what he meant in hus mumbling.
>  
>
Ok, well, I'm probably not the most qualified person to answer this 
since I just got my second official notice from the CS department 
informing me that I have been rejected from the major... anyways ;)

Yes, they teach Java as a first language (something that I used to 
disagree with violently, but the more I use the language, the less 
opposed I am to it - it still gives beginning programmers brain damage, 
but to a lesser degree than I originally thought). However, their C/Unix 
course (352, which Brian mentioned) is a pre-req for most of the 400 
level classes, which are all done in C. I'm not quite sure as to the 
scope of the class because I tested out of it, but from the few days I 
did attend, it was a very rapid and comprehensive introduction to unix.

The department maintains two labs, one of which is full of windows boxes 
and is generally reserved for people taking their introductory Java 
classes, and the other is half-windows/half-debian (which is where 
anyone else goes if they need to use a lab machine). It is expected that 
you will do your C programming assignments on the Sparc.

So yeah, definately no anti-unix bias, and definately no lack of c. I 
have done all of my work from Linux boxes (well, I did have to use a 
windows machine for the C# class, but I used rdesktop from my home 
machine to connect to it :p).

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Ammon Lauritzen
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