Re: UCSD (was: Email Validation)

no-spam_at_no-spam.com said...
> Ahh the great UCI vs UCSD debate... I was accepted to both, actually. It
> came down to which was closer to me.
>
> UCI also has those extension courses but I wasn't counting them (I generally
> distrust classes which meet a total of 10 times or less!).
>
> Do you teach there at UCSD? A couple years have gone by since I've been
> trying to decode between an MBA and a PhD in CompSci... Don't know where
> I'll end up.
>
Well, I don't know about the UCSD extension courses in Oracle ... haven't taken any of them. I do know a couple of developers who took the Java classes there ... and were pleased with the course. Yes, short classes often imply a lesser education ... however, like the OracleEd classes, extension classes often meet 8 hours at each meeting. So you have a choice between more one-hour classes or fewer eight-hour classes.

No I don't teach there ... but I worked there some 30 years ago ... in my pre-Oracle days (Pascal on a Burroughs B-5500). Wonderful place to [Quoted] work, I might add. I'm too old, though, to sit in class with young surfers who bring their boards to school, then walk (or bike) down to the beach after class.

[Quoted] On your last note, there's not much call for a PhD in CompSci these days ... though with today's tight job market, it helped one of the employees here get hired over the hundreds of other applicants who only had a BS. An MBA seems to have more options.

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/Karsten
DBA > retired > DBA