Squeak in college education

Stephen Davies steve at daviesfam.org
Tue Feb 17 10:32:23 UTC 2004



On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Gary Fisher wrote:

> >
> > Part of the Georgia Tech culture is that people like to complain. (This is
> > true for the faculty as much as the students.) Anyway, having a good sense
> > of humor about these things, I was peeking at
> > http://www.studentsreview.com/GA/GT_c.html and ran across this quote:
> >
> > 'Before I came I heard the school was good for Computer Science -- it is
> > afterall the biggest single major at the school. However, this is not a
> > Computer Science school, and they teach you useless languages such as
> > "Squeak", which you'll never use again in your life.'
> >

Perhaps I expect to much - but shouldn't people who think like that
about their university education should rather be at a vocational
school?  Or just go to "Java University" or whatever.

Steve





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