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Sriram wrote a post on some points of disagreement with Joels Advice to CS Students.

Welll Sriram, GPA's or equivalent do make a difference. Yes, it is always not the right way, but look at it from a recruiters point of view. I get 20,000 resumes from freshers, you dont expect me to interview each of them do you.. The first thing people look at when they get a fresher's resume, is his score at college. Yes there are people who get bad marks, but are good programmers. They usually get picked up via friends or someone who knew them etc. For the general student population GPA or Total Percent does matter.

About the Language issue, my advice would be, Learn any language, but understand how things work. I am a VB Zealot, but that does not mean that I have no idea what pointers are. The language does not matter, it is after all a syntatical representation of your intent. Understanding how a computer works is what matters.