[plug] Uni Course - UWA or Curtin?

[Adrian Woodley]

 From memory , the point isn't to teach you as many languages as 
possible - its to teach you how to learn a language, design a program 
and work in a team. They may teach you some basics of a couple of 
languages, but you're really supposed to be able to RTFM and work it out 
for yourself. This is especially true for Software Engineering, where 
units such as Requirements Engineering and Software Engineering describe 
the design process, but you don't touch any code at all. This is a 
sensible way to do things as there is no one language that solves all 
your problems and you never know when the next language may appear and 
take hol in the market - if you've just spent 3 or 4 years learning Java 
and suddenly everyone wants ADRIAN++ V2 then you're up the proverbial 
creek, however if you've been taught how to read language documentation, 
etc, then you'll be employable.

Regards,
Adrian

PS Curtin Curtin Curtin, Yay Yay Yay! :)

PPS Curtin has CoMA which compares to UCC, although it doesn't have all 
the fun toys :)
And the Curtin Tavern is second to none!

Jonathon Bates wrote:

>>So far we haven't done any Prolog or VB\VBA at Murdoch yet, and to be
>>perfectly honest I have never heard of Haskell. 
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>And you wont either. VB is a joke of a langauge and completely not
>necessary.
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>>We do use C++ and the
>>STL in our data structures unit though, 
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>We only use C++ in one unit and thats it. Which IMHO is sad as it is so
>much a better programming langauge than Java <flame proof retardent at the
>ready>.
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>>and C\Java are the main
>>languages running through most units. 
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>Wrong, Java is the only language it really wants to teach. There is one
>first year unit with C (b106) and thats really it.
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>>Murdoch also uses a number of the
>>scripting languages you mentioned, and a 'by the way' look at XML, in
>>the 2nd year Internet unit. 
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>Javascript, and Perl is about it. Depending on your stream.
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>Cheers
>batesy
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