Best CS/EE Program in Adelaide?

[Simon Knight]

There is a computer science course on System Programming in C.
The fundamentals are the theoretical language rather than a specific
language implementation.
We have a number of subjects requiring C, but we unless you take the
above mentioned subject, you don't have a formal course in it.

You could say the same argument for why don't graduates know .NET
(although C is presumably a more "fundamental" language than .NET).

You could probably argue that a graduate going down the
Java/Web/PHP/SQL career path wouldn't need to know the intricacies of
C.

The original question was comparing the different courses - I'm not
sure if Unisa teaches more core subjects in C.

Simon

On 8/26/07, Tom Schinckel <gunny01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 15:56 +0930, Rod Whitby wrote:
> > Simon Knight wrote:
> > > I'm not sure of the other Unis, but Adelaide definitely has a focus on
> > > the fundamentals rather than the latest flavour of the day
> > > implementation.
> >
> > If that is true, why can't I recruit graduates with C or C++ training?
> >
> > -- Rod
>
> Because in order to shoot yourself in the foot with C, you must first
> build each part of the gun and bullet yourself. And then you must build
> your foot...
>
> I guess it's because with easier buzzword languages like C# coming out
> left right and center, the "old school" languages have a hard time.
>
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