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crazybritishsteve:
Where i went it was 'You don't need to have experience. If you don't have any experience, your going to have to work harder, but you don't need experience.'

It's not essential to have any experience. Just don't expect to be top of the class. Unless you're naturally brilliant, of course.

est:
the concept not being taught an actual language is rather weird.  in my course we used Pascal as an introductory language (which later changed to modula2) when learning the basics of programming, then ansi c for more programming theory, graphics programming and systems programming.  then we switched to COBOL for a subject that i forget about, used Prolog in an AI subject, SR in some other subject, Java in an interweb programming subject, Visual Basic for a subject that was basically about GUIs and a cut-back version of Assembly in a systems architecture subject.

we were also taught the basics of SQL for a database subject, and i think we used Miranda at one point, too.  i can't remember.  point is that they tried to give us a well-rounded look at a bunch of different kinds of programming languages.

victor_smithe:

--- Quote from: crazybritishsteve ---Where i went it was 'You don't need to have experience. If you don't have any experience, your going to have to work harder, but you don't need experience.'

It's not essential to have any experience. Just don't expect to be top of the class. Unless you're naturally brilliant, of course.
--- End quote ---

This sounds like how it is at the University of Waterloo too.
I think they did have an extra course/tutorial thing to go to in order to catch up a bit if needed during first year.
I was in software engineering so they moved a bit faster with more courses but the basic CS courses were just a tough enough to get you going.

Samari:
the difference i'm thinking of is between "we're going to teach you C++/Java/SCHEME/etc and then you'll know topic x eventually" and "we're going to teach you abstractly how to do x and we're going to use language y so if you don't know it get familiar with it."  

In a lot of classes they didn't even care what language we used so long as we got the program to work

Kanno:
So is the mac thing gonna come back to haunt me?  I had to go mac (and why wouldn't I want to?) so I could run my pro audio stuff, but I figured the darwin/unix core would run everything I needed for programming.

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