[plug] [OT] murdoch IT dept

[Bret Busby]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Ben New wrote:

> 
> When I went there it was C++, which isn't brilliant, but at least they 
> stuck to the one language for all of 1st year :-)  (Apart from Prolog, 
> but you could hardly confuse those two!)  Assembly was taught in 
> Computer Systems or something like that, a whole unit devoted to 
> assembly and processor architecture (imagine!)
> 

And, how long ago was that?

When B106 and B209 were teaching C++, the computer systems unit was 
teaching C (B216, from memory).

> 
> That's what you get when you put IT in between Business and Law instead 
> of between Maths and Science!
> 
> 

What do you mean, "between Business and Law"?

The teaching IT department is part of the Faculty of Arts. The Arts 
Faculty awards "science" qualifications in computing (now even 
BSc - Computer Gaming, and, PostGrad Dip Sc - Computer Gaiming; the only 
Postgrad Dip offered by the School of It at Murdoch).

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of 
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
  written by Douglas Adams, 
  published by Pan Books, 1992 
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