3 Jan
2012
3 Jan
'12
2:30 p.m.
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012, Toby Thain wrote:
Some people should be doing something else. From what
I see around:
Maybe 80% of the current industry.
Why? They didn't learn and they won't learn.
80% of EVERY industry!
30 years ago, a student couldn't handle remedial college arithmetic. His
"counselor" suggested, that to handle his cognitive deficiencies, he
should switch his major to "Computer Programming"! I talked to the
student, and recommended another change; he is now a happy successful MBA.
The "counselor" is now president of the college. . . . and people wonder
why defenestration is necessary
One must keep in mind the pace of a college class. Would you really want
to do recursion in somebody's first day? OK, now scale that to a college
class - recursion belongs in the second semester.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com