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America's CS Isn't Trying Hard Enough

posted 25 Apr 2006

After reading A Red Flag in the Brain Game I started reflecting on my schooling. From my experience Universities are going soft on CS students. In the first two years of undergraduate classes we play with Legos and Java instead of working on hard problems. And even senior level courses are soft: in Computer Architecture we have spent the first three weeks explaining key concepts of computer architecture that every C programmer must be aware of to create working code. Oh, and how many times must I listen to a lecture on binary arithmetic?!

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Brandon Philips by Mujtaba Ali

ifup.org is the weblog of Brandon Philips and contains excerpts from my code, work and play.

I write Linux software and work on the systems layer of Linux. In the last two years I have helped to organize Linux Plumbers Conf and Freedom HEC Taipei. It has been rewarding to bring together these communities to discuss current Linux issues.

Robotics is another passion and I had the opportunity to mentor a FIRST Robotics team in Portland recently too. I also continue to work with my friend Ron Jackson to build some neat USB devices for robotics.