>>>Programming Principles courses (which I, of course, took).:-)
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>Hummm.... is that
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>Programming with Principles (how to write a program with your schools principle)
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>Programming with Principles (how to write code that includes your personal moral principles)
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>Programming with Principles (how to write code with the ceo of a fortune 500 company)
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>Programming with Principles (how to write code with the Prince of Ples)
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>or it that phrase one big oxymoron?

< bg > Well, actually, after further thinking it was CS220-CS222. CS220 was taught using Pascal. The professor (Dr. David Morgan - AKA "Crazy Dave"), was (and is) brillant. Taught me a ton about abstraction and really laid the foundation for my coding style. CS221 was taught in Crudball...er...COBOL by Dr. Morris Roberts. CS222 was done in Pascal again. Dr Roberts also taught that and was co-author of the text that was used. That class was the one where the "wheat got separated from the chaff". Started out with 36 students, ended up with 9. There was one A given. Did a lot of cool stuff, all kinds of things with binary trees, abstract data structures, pointers, recusive programming. I think that's one of the reasons I've always been at home with C/C++ even though I've never really studied it. Lots of similarities, albeit not in the syntax.