Timeline for My university doesn't provide php courses because it is an "easy" programming language?
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| May 7, 2013 at 13:42 | comment | added | Theodore R. Smith | There's always phpu.cc It seems to be a complete college alternative, more of a trade school with full apprenticeship and everything. | |
| Nov 12, 2011 at 0:01 | history | edited | Arseni Mourzenko | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Corrected formatting |
| Mar 30, 2011 at 13:53 | comment | added | Steven A. Lowe | @SK: ROFLAMAO!!! | |
| Mar 30, 2011 at 10:00 | comment | added | SK-logic | @Steven A. Lowe, that dean was a very smart person. OOP is nothing but a giant fraud, and ignoring it entirely in a curriculum is a smart thing to do. And CMU recently explained their decision as "because it is both anti-modular and anti-parallel by its very nature, and hence unsuitable for a modern CS curriculum" - not because it is "hard" (it is not). It simply does not worth teaching. | |
| Mar 30, 2011 at 9:23 | comment | added | Zachary K | My first CS class was functional programming (Scheme), | |
| Mar 30, 2011 at 8:44 | vote | accept | wyc | ||
| Mar 30, 2011 at 6:50 | comment | added | Steven A. Lowe | @apoorv020: because OOP was too difficult for the poor freshmen to handle right off the bat | |
| Mar 30, 2011 at 6:43 | comment | added | apoorv020 | CMU decided a few days back to stop teaching OOP as an intro level course, and made it an elective. developers.slashdot.org/story/11/03/26/0016229/… | |
| Mar 30, 2011 at 6:20 | comment | added | Steven A. Lowe | I was once (long ago) told by the dean of CS at a major university that OOP was a passing fad, so they didn't bother to teach any OOP languages. This was in 1993, so his ignorance/skepticism is forgivable. | |
| Mar 30, 2011 at 6:02 | history | answered | Drew | CC BY-SA 2.5 |