17 May
2005
17 May
'05
6:59 p.m.
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Tony Duell wrote:
How can somebody even consider a career in "engineering" if they've never
even made their own flashlight ("torch" on the other side of the pond)
Well, I don't know whether to laugh or cry...
I cried.
I try to teach beginning programming in C and "intel" assembly language.
But I don't have enough common ground to even talk to people with NO
concept of the world around them.
Does anyone else remember that show (about 6 months to a year ago),
and have any references to a write-up of it?
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
> How many
people saw that Nova? PBS session where they handed ENGINEERING
> undergrads a battery a bulb and a handful of wires? Many of the students
> were adament that it was impossible to light the bulb without a socket.
It's worrying that I could do this before I even went to primary school... Many of them made a dead short across the battery, and
then touched one of
the bulb contacts to that. etc.
Wow, comedy for nerds. I have to see that.