From: Talha Syed <talhasy@...>
Date: 2006-03-18T00:16:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Are college professors teaching computer science with ru

In one of our courses (Programming Languages), we study Ruby, and have
to write an assignment using it. Our OS prof let us do the assignments
in any language - I chose to do it in Ruby, and he was happy with that
decision.


anne001 wrote:
> I was wondering if anybody taught the traditional computer courses in
> ruby.
> 
> With a google search, I found Dr Cripps at mtsu using Rails (not clear
> if he is using something else as well) to teach programming theory,  Dr
> Lewis at Duke using ruby and rails to teach web application
> development, Tinkham and Kaner at Olin university using ruby in a
> course on software testing. A few using ruby as a 4th or 5th language
> briefly mentioned.
> 
> Does anyone know of any college course?
> 
> If this sample is representative of the thousands of universities
> offering their syllabus on line, does that mean that ruby has not
> penetrated the fortress of universities/colleges? Is it a matter of
> time, or are universities conservative, and they can only teach the
> language most used, ie C++ and Java for a while yet.

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