{"id":231,"date":"2005-09-11T11:55:13","date_gmt":"2005-09-11T18:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2005-12-21T22:48:29","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T06:48:29","slug":"classes-universities-should-be-teaching-in-cs-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/11\/classes-universities-should-be-teaching-in-cs-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Classes Universities Should be Teaching in CS Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/pub\/au\/2379\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Zambonini<\/a> published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlamp.com\/pub\/wlg\/7757\" target=\"_blank\">an article<\/a> on what he thought would be useful classes in computer science programs in colleges and universities.<\/p>\n<p>To Mr. Zambonini&#8217;s credit, I can relate to most of this suggestions. <a href=\"http:\/\/mark.wiredatom.com\/blog\/\">My brother<\/a> told me most of his CS classes at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purdue.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Purdue University<\/a> are heavy on theory, light on practice. I had to really squeeze practicing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.php.net\" target=\"_blank\">PHP<\/a> out of him. Fortunately the classes I am taking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsc.edu\" target=\"_blank\">UCSC<\/a> are really market driven and practical (Java + XML, JavaScripting, Securing Java&#8230; etc). But being able to get into one of those classes is another story.<\/p>\n<p>via [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashdot.net\" target=\"_blank\">Slashdot<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Zambonini published an article on what he thought would be useful classes in computer science programs in colleges and universities. To Mr. Zambonini&#8217;s credit, I can relate to most of this suggestions. My brother told me most of his CS classes at Purdue University are heavy on theory, light on practice. I had to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/11\/classes-universities-should-be-teaching-in-cs-programs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Classes Universities Should be Teaching in CS Programs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding","category-geek-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-3J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}