Best Computer School?
Rich Graves
rcgraves at disposable.com
Wed Jan 29 06:57:48 PST 1997
Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> Let me plug Carnegie Mellon University, which consistently ties with
> MIT and one of them California schools for first place in computer
> science.
You must be joking. After all you've said about the school, you're
recommending it? Isn't "Mr. L-18 Tag" the head of the department now?
Anyway, our correspondent is asking the wrong question. There is no
"best" school. If you want to be a brilliant programmer, I think you
have to be born that way. If you want theory, you need to be specific
about your research interests. If you want mass-marketable experience in
Windoze, avoid the big-name schools, which tend to treat Windows with
the respect is deserves. (At Stanford, despite having a very nice Paul
Allen Center for Integrated Systems and a posh new Bill Gates
Information Sciences building, all instruction is done in Think C or
UNIX.)
-rich
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