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On 2/9/2016 9:36 AM, Brian Reay wrote:
On 09/02/16 13:36, Jerry Stuckle wrote: And I suppose you learned about exothermic reactions in a World History class. No. In the United States, computer languages are taught in Computer Science courses, not Chemistry. Well, it seems not in Rickman's Uni/College. lt wasn't a class in computer programming, it was a lab course with multiple 2 week topics. Being an undergraduate class the idea was to give you a taste of a variety of topics. So 2 weeks was just enough to allow you to write terrible FORTRAN programs. Likewise the CS department taught a lecture class which spent two weeks on each of several languages. I recall struggling with Lisp until a few days before the end of the two weeks when the light bulb finally lit and programming became easy. In the chem lab I also took 2 weeks of metal shop where I operated a lathe. One of my best programming classes was in EE, "Structured Programming". The ideas in that class have stuck with me ever since. It certainly isn't the case here. You could be enrolled/registered as, say, a Chemistry student and taught a course in, say, programming you would require by the Computer Dept. Just as I was an Engineering Student and, like all engineers, required to do some Maths courses taught by the Maths dept. My youngest, completed a 4 year Masters in Chemistry recently (she is now doing a PhD). She was required, at least in the first year (and possibly more, I don't recall) to do some Maths courses, they were taught by the Maths Dept. I helped her with a couple of things and noticed the dept. name etc. on the material. Likewise, her twin is a Medical Student. She had to do at least one Law module (or perhaps more)- that is taught in by the Law dept. At Univ of MD the Physics department had three different series of undergraduate physics classes. Two semesters for the Chem majors, three semesters for the Engineering majors and four semesters for the Physics majors. I took the Engineering sequence "just in case". My Eldest is a Law Graduate, she has an LLB and a Masters, studied in France- the two degrees were linked. She was required to do some French courses, they were taught in the Language dept in the UK. She was 'Called to the Bar' (not something you have in the US as I understand it) some time ago. What the "Bar"? Yes, we call it that as well. -- Rick |
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