From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <001601c1001e$3aa698a0$6401a8c0@freeze2k> From: "Matt" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <010901c0f6bc$d5368b20$6401a8c0@freeze2k> <008801c10019$604547a0$c0b7c6d4@SOMA> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: the 'science' in computer science MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 23:03:57 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c0d6eec0-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Boyd Roberts" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 10:29 PM Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: the 'science' in computer science > > I know they've covered Assembler, Java, C++ and Databases. > > surely s/he could have picked a 5th worthless subject... i think that's saved up for the final year He constantly amazes us (his friends) with his computer cluelessness. Like finding it difficult to persuade him that his overclocked celeron might be struggling to execute the tcp/ip stack while he was trying to play high-end games. Or helping him install a windows based web proxy (literally double clicking on setup.exe) I remember they used MS Access for their database. We had a CS graduate come for an interview. He was clearly a bit clueless. The questions were scaled down to make him feel a bit better when he left. "What is a hexadecimal number?" "A combination of numbers and letters" He had a nice suit on though. M