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What did you have when you were at Carnegie Mellon if I may ask!



First, understand that there was no Computer Science degree back then - it was called "Applied Math". I think the courses available to undergrads were:

1. programming [A]

2. algorithms

3. operating systems

4. compiler design

If you were lucky like me, and a graduating student bestowed upon you a coveted key to the graduate terminal room, then you could hack on those excellent DEC VT-100 terminals besides James Gosling, and buy bottles of Coke from what was perhaps the first vending machine connected to the internet.

[A] Interesting in that it was a school-wide class that you were required to take and to pass. Programing was done in Pascal on a mini-computer-based IDE.


Ah interesting :)

You may be interested to know that (1) is still required, even for CFA people


And of that I approve




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