This week Embedded.com has Jack Ganssle trot out what is by now a thoroughly exhausted straw man in his article CS Schooling, where he asks Do CS departments come even close to producing graduates that meet the needs of the firmware community?
Jack is addressing firmware specifically, and for his punching bag he looks at the required courses in a typical CS curriculum (parenthetical comments are his):
Object-Oriented Programming I and II (in Java)Discrete Structures (in Java)&n [...]
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