[Tfug] CIS faculty at PCC west disavow existence of Linux
classes
Anthony Hess
tfug@tfug.org
Mon Jan 27 14:02:01 2003
I am biased (took the class), but I think Jack Lyon does a good job with C
programming in Engineering 170. And he won't have any problem with Unix.
Its mostly numerical problems to solve, but coding is coding. Just expect a
different focus from CS.
Tony
On 1/27/03 1:48 PM, "James Hood" <jlhood@email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> On the other hand, ECE doesn't emphasize programming enough. 275, intro
> to C, is a pretty terrible class. It leaves most students with a fear
> rather than an understanding of programming. Plus, it doesn't teach good
> programming practices, so their code is hardly readable. I took almost
> all of my CS classes about 2 1/2 years ago and I thought the OOP classes
> were very good. I've heard that the department has declined a bit since
> then, but I can't verify that myself.
>
> Just my 2 cents,
>
> James