Subj : Re: Are programmers like this in the real world? To : comp.programming From : Matthias Kaeppler Date : Sat Jul 23 2005 03:39 pm Chris McDonald wrote: > Matthias Kaeppler writes: > > >>..... >>than CS (I am studying CS and I haven't even heard >>of a programming lecture for CS students at our >>university...). > > > Wow! Which University, and what sort of course is it? Thanks, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. For CS students, there are no "programming courses", which teach you how to program in a specific language or so. In the short-lived world of IT it is (or shouldn't) be the intention of a university to teach certain tools or languages, but rather the concepts behind them. You can/must then learn the languages of your choice on your own. Most courses already assume that you know how to program, though there are some lectures teaching software development basics which illustrate programming paradigms by introducing them with a certain language (Java for OO, Standard ML for functional programming). There are also exercises were we have to program in these languages, but there are no specific courses teaching the languages. However, I heard of a C++ lecture for math students. -- Matthias Kaeppler .