Computer Science at UCSC

So I'm helping Tami with her C++ class at UCSC. It's good in the sense that it's designed for life science majors that aren't planning on being career programmers. It's a somewhat gentle introduction.

Unfortunately, the class requires the use of a Windows machine. You don't have to own one, but you at least have to use one in the lab. It's crazy that she has this world-class development environment in a nice compact PowerBook, but it's useless because the course is dependent on Windows.

But beyond the basic principle, it seems odd that life sciences majors would not be allowed to program using a unix variant.

And one of the first things Tami tells me after coming back from the lab: "Windows computers are really hard to navigate. What's the deal?"

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