I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYI’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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