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| DATE | 2005-05-17 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Back to school
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I'm hoping to take the undergrad program.
Ruben
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 18:59, Contrarian wrote:
> > I was thinking that it would be good to nail down a Masters in Computer
> > Sciences, and I know others on this list have made similar expressions.
>
> > So I'm looking at the Brooklyn College Web site and I'm thinking, we can
> > do this like the Oriental students, if 3 or 4 of us go together. We can
> > sort of collaborate our way though the program (and spread the NYLXS
> > net). Is anyone else willing to do this?
>
> Well.... I asked about that program a few years ago (before NYLXS
> was in existence.) The odd thing about it, and I believe many
> CS master's programs is that one is required to take the masters
> program if one has a BA or BS in anything, whether one has any
> programming experience or not, i.e. pay graduate rates. I don't
> think Brooklyn is unique in that respect. ISTR some other
> programs requiring some programming competence (i.e. prior
> coursework)
>
> One of their professors said that he thought the undergraduate program
> was better. I doubt he will go on record with that though.
>
> In the one course I started to take, the midterm was "write
> a program that prints out its command line arguments" That's
> doesn't require great expertise. Getting a degree like this
> might be not be a terribly bad idea for ppl in Civil Service
> positions where they look more and more for "education and
> experience" because the credential, no matter what is behind
> it, is what counts.
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