I agree with most of your points, but M$ often introduces
irregularities into their concepts that result in
1) specialization of knowledge
2) specialization of tooling
3) long term commitments to M$ platform
The fact is that M$ had designed programs to make sure that students
learn M$ technologies over other competing brands. This was seen as a
long term real estate investment in the space between your ears. A
similar conflict was seen with the OLPC units. Hope this helps.
-jmz
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Nadim Hoque<
nadimhoque@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think it really matters. The whole point of cs is to teach theory and algorithm design so it doesn't matter the os. I'm currently a cs at asu and thus far my professors don't really care about os just as long as you can develop the current language. The labs do teach development under windows but that's because everyone in class uses windows and not because they hate open source matter in fact many use linux or unix. If you do java than they don't care just as long as you have the jdk. Funny thing is that they use a linux server to check your program. Hope this helps
> ------Original Message------
> From: Joshua Zeidner
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> Subject: Re: Colleges that support Free Software?
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>
> If you are serious about the Computer Science discipline, I would
> recommend ASU. My professor at SUNY taught everything in GNU, but it
> seemed the attitude changed somewhere around 2000. This coincided
> with a lot of people hanging around campus in suits and briefcases.
> Although some may not find it exciting, make sure you get a good
> grounding in math and computation theory. If that isn't your thing,
> then pursue a degree in media or arts.
>
> -jmz
>
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Ryan Rix<phrkonaleash@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I am going to be a senior in high school next year so it is time for me to
>> start looking at which colleges I would be interested in attending.
>> Basically I am looking to take up a degree in CS, simple and easy.
>>
>> One of the factors I'd like to look into in regards to those colleges I apply
>> at is how do they support Free Software in their CS curriculum. It's fairly
>> important to me that I am able to develop under a Free operating system in the
>> CS courses that I choose to take, and am not forced to develop under Windows.
>>
>> Does anyone have any experince with Free Software universities, or any
>> resources that have information on them?
>>
>> Ryan
>>
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