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William -<br>
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My godson is an engineering major at Cal Poly and is doing extremely
well. You may want to contact him and find out his thoughts on the
school.<br>
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I am not sure if he still has the same email address; I'll check it out.<br>
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Ross Gompertz <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ross@nicasio.org"><ross@nicasio.org></a><br>
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Todd<br>
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Stephen Cilley wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I went to Cal Poly last year. I realize this might be
something aside from the question that you are asking,
but I want to give you a big flashing neon warning
sign about that place:
Their whole administrative philosophy is kind of
bogus. Things are pretty sticky at that school if you
make a mistake. Most importantly DO NOT go into a
program you are at all unsure about. It's very very
difficult to transfer majors within the school and
they will make you pay dearly for your mistake.
I went for one year, but it only took me a quarter to
realize I was in the wrong major. I failed out after
three quarters and don't plan on returning. In the
fall I'm going off to San Jose state under their SE
program.
As far as davis is concerned, the only thing I've
heard about them (and I heard this from Aaron) is that
they teach first year students in C/C++ instead of
Java like most other four year universities.
Both schools have nice campuses, but there is
something very pastoral about CPSLO that I've never
seen at another college. If you are going down to
check it out any time soon, make sure you set aside an
hour or two to walk up poly canyon, it's beautiful:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.originalskinstudios.org/pix/CPHills/">http://www.originalskinstudios.org/pix/CPHills/</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.originalskinstudios.org/pix/Poly%20Canyon%20April%20">http://www.originalskinstudios.org/pix/Poly%20Canyon%20April%20</a>'05/
Best of luck to both of us for the fall, eh?
Stephen Cilley
--- William Tracy <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:afishionado@gmail.com"><afishionado@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hello,
I'm sorry that this is a bit off-topic. :-)
I'm a computer science major currently at the JC,
planning to transfer
next fall. I'm considering Cal Poly SLO, and UC
Davis; both have
accepted my applications.
Davis and Cal Poly both have computer science
programs, but Cal Poly
also has a software engineering program, which looks
like it is more
geared toward someone wanting to get a job in
programming. On the
other hand, it looks like getting a degree there
will take at least a
year longer that at Davis.
Eventually, I want to get a job computer
programming. I was wondering
if anyone here could offer any thoughts from the
perspective of
someone in the software industry. If there's any
graduates from these
schools here who can comment, that would be great,
too.
The impression I get is that the degree you get only
really matters
for the first job or two; after that, it's all about
where you worked
before. Does this mean that it really doesn't matter
where I go? Could
anyone offer any thoughts on whether a software
engineering degree is
really going to be more helpful than a computer
science degree?
Thanks a lot!
William Tracy
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