9 May
2010
9 May
'10
9:57 a.m.
> I taught beginning FORTRAN in the 1980s at
Merritt College (community
> college), and would not mind doing it again, if we could get a quorum for
> the classes.
> COBOL is gone from our curriculum :-(
> RPG is gone from our curriculum :-)
> FORTRAN is gone from our curriculum :-(
> APL is gone from our curriculum :-(
> BASIC is gone from our curriculum :-(
> The administration has cancelled C
> The administration has cancelled C#
> The administration has cancelled ASM
WOuld anybody mind if I cancelled the administration ? Painfully?
We are down to
"Using Microsoft Office", "VISUAL BASIC",
and C++ (slated for cancellation soon)
The CIS departments are circling the drain.
That sucks. I am *so* glad I never went on to further education after
secondary school. I have learnt more on my own (thanks to books, people on
this list and retro computers) than I ever would have in *modern courses*. A piece of paper doesn't make me a good coder, good
software written by me
does.
Too much emphassis is placed on paper qualifications these days... It's a
problem for me, since I don't have any particularly relevant ones. Lack
of these bits of paper does not mean you can't do the job, conversely
having them doesn't mean you can... Oh well...
How can BASIC not be taught? Every computer has it's own version of BASIC,
whereas (as I understand it) Visual Basic is only available for modern
computers.
I agree with the statemetn that 'every child should learn to program. Not
because they will become programmer,s but becuase programming teaches you
to think logically about solving problems and to break up problems into
simple steps'/ Or something like that anyway...
-tony