[racket] Math Guidance

On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 10:01:22AM -0400, Matthias Felleisen wrote:

Too many acronyms for me to clearly understand this post.  In 
particular, what's MS?  I'm guessing NEU is a university.

-- hendrik

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> On Nov 4, 2010, at 9:45 AM, wooks . wrote:
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> > Unless you are headed for CS grad school or  are Google/Microsoft material (by ability or by being in a brand name school) nobody really cares about your CS degree.
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> I think this is an overly narrow perspective. 
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> NEU works with a lot of co-op employers (100s) and almost all of them care about high quality programming. Indeed, they forced NEU to re-train MS students when they enter because the typical NEU/MS co-op student wasn't as good as the undergraduates we produce. 
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> I am sure there are companies that don't care what kind of software they produce but there is a dearth of good programmers as far as our co-op employers are concerned. 
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> -- Matthias
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