Hi Chris,
I'm not going to get involved in the "bookshare wars', but since you were
chastizing others on this list because most people use WINDOWS and not
linux, I think its only fair to point out that your computer science
department is very nonstandard. Though I am a meteorologist, not a
computer science person, I know many computer science students in the past
and the present. Teaching WINDOWS programming is very nonstandard. I
would guess that at least 90 percent of the schools teach programming on a
UNIX variant of some kind. In the past thre was a fair amount of people
using VMS. However, a lot of beginning C and C++ classes did use
Turbo/Borland. WINDOWS programming is much more difficult than UNIX
programming, so I suppose you are to be congratulated for making it
through such a tough curriculum.
Jim Wantz
