Chris Wareham wrote:
> I never did a degree in anything computer related, so I'd assumed this
> was what such a course would entail - but having interviewed many
> graduates I find it isn't. I did start an evening course to get a HNC
> (or HND, can't remember which) in the mid 1990s, and that included
> modules on hardware and assembly language programming. The first year
> language was C, and the second year would have moved onto C++. Perhaps
> the technical college I attended was lucky in that the lecturers were
> mostly part timers who also worked in industry.
I think it's more likely that being in the mid 1990s was the reason
those topics were covered. That was 15 years ago - plenty of time for
the curriculum to change and lecturers to have moved on by nearly a
generation :-)
-- Jamie
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