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...language choice [to be taught in CS50] was not driven by industrial training because by the time the freshmen graduate, it could be passe," says Lewis...
...There's a lot of computer theory, the department is very academic," says Michael J. Geller '94, a computer science concentrator and CS50 teaching fellow...
Sharon Fenick '94, a computer science concentrator and CS50 teaching fellow, feels that the CS50 language change was not crucial. "It just always seemed like less of a pressing issue," she says. "Pascal is a good educational language so they concentrated on teaching other things...
...comforting to know that what I'm learning in CS50 can be applied so that I can get a job," says Yuval Segal '97, hopes to put his skills to use over the summer. "I went into OCS to look for positions and they all wanted programmers who knew C and UNIX and I thought 'cool, that's what I know...
Meanwhile, now that the shock of the CS50 influx has worn off, the department's bigwigs are trying to deal with the ramifications of the unexpected interest in their discipline...