[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