Re:RIT (Score 1)

I am also a CS major, but at the University of Michigan. I agree with some of your problems with your CS program, but there is one claim that you make that is ridiculous. You said that "the second problem is the fact that they require no previous coding experience to join the CS program." Before I came to college and joined our CS program, I had never programmed in my life. I didn't even know what a compiler was. But now I'm 3rd year, and I am doing fine -- yes, I do have to study harder than guys like you who have been programming for a long time and are able to skip class and get A's, as you said. But, contrary to what you think, I certainly don't get F's just because I have never programmed before; I get A's just like you, I just have to work a little harder. Do you really believe it would be fair to require previous programming experience to join the department? I agree with you that a lot of people try CS who haven't done anything with it before or don't know the first thing about it -- but they should get weeded out through the courses. There shouldn't be a pre-requirement to weed those people out. I've known quite a number of people (mostly females, including me) who would fail this pre-requirement you propose, and yet we've learned how to program pretty well. I just hope you see how ridiculous your suggestion is.