[plug] Debian CD's covers and Computer Science courses

[Beau Kuiper]

On Wednesday 30 May 2001 08:38, Darrell Horrocks wrote:
> Fabríico dos Anjos Silva wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
>
> >Message 2
> >
> >    I have already studied 2 years and a half of Computer Science (not
> >in Australia) and I intend to continue my studies for one more semester
> >here in Perth. My doubt is about which university to choose. It seems
> >that the two best ones are UWA and Curtin. Since there are some students
> >from these universities on the PLUG list, I would appreciate if you
> >could send me your opinions about the university in which you study. I
> >want to know how theory and pratical issues are balanced, if you think
> >the course is well organized, what do you think about the professors and
> >how informal and funny is the studying environment. Your opinion will
> >help me a lot.
>
> Oh dear, could this be another flame war on offer?  Rather than
> Redhat-v-Debian-v-Mandrake it's now UWA-v-Curtin-v-ECU (otherwise known
> as Enid Blyton for those of you who went to UWA ;-) )
>
> Of course IMHO applies.
>
> Having gone to ECU and studied CS there, I can whole heartedly recommend
> this as a very practical university, particularly at later years,
> although why you want to study Ada at the lower levels never ceases to
> amaze me.  The lecturers are usually pretty dry, but very informative
> and generally willing to help students outside of lectures/tutorials and
> workshops.

At least ECU didn't adopt the java everywhere thing, like curtin has (yuck, i 
can't imagine a worse language to teach people on). They used to do pascal, 
but oviously, it wasn't cool enogth for them :-(

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au