Unix in college (was Re: [ILUG] [OT] general thoughts on another free Linux Internet service?)

[Donncha O Caoimh]

I'd have to disagree with you there. College does teach you some of the
stuff you might rather not learn about. The business side of it is just
as relevant to many of our daily jobs as the computing side. (even if I
feel asleep in accounting occasionally!)

I visited my old college, CIT (the Cork one!), and was depressed by all
the NT running PCs in the labs. They used to have an AIX lab but that's
been replaced by shiny boxes with "Intel Inside". That's what worries
me.

Donncha.


Aaron McDaid wrote:
> 
> > I'm not a college graduate, so I can't really say much... But I would
> > have thought that the whole point of a degree in Computer science is to
> > teach you as much as possible about Computing environments and
> > technology, even history...
> 
> no such luck, i'm on a year out from a Computer Science degree in Queen's
> Belfast
> and after 2 years I don't think I learned anything at all! A small bit of
> HTML,
> a basic overview of the theory behind parallel programming (really basic -
> most
> of the the time is spent explaining over and over what a semaphore is! and
> there
> was a whole module on it).
> I was really looking forward to learning real cool stuff but the course was
> s**t