21 Oct
2001
21 Oct
'01
11:46 p.m.
This is correct, the primary problem lies w/ teachers
spewing GIGO,
good teachers is percious few.
Too true... my brother-in-law was doing a C++ course earlier this year and
sent me one of his assignments to have a look at. Imagine my horror when I
looked at the bit of code his teacher had given him to work from and the
first 5 lines were "#include <whatever.cpp>" ...
There have been an alarming number of interviews where I've asked a graddie
(who's supposedly been studying Java for a year) what the significance of
java.lang.Object was, only to be greeted by incomprehension. What do they
teach these people? At least they've moved towards Java now, 5 years ago I
used to ask graddies who "knew C++" what a pointer was and get answers like
"it's that arrow thing on the screen that you move around with the mouse".
And Tony Blair wants to make us a nation of IT excellence :-) Hmmm.
-al
22 Oct
22 Oct
9:51 a.m.
Well unfortunately. this has been going on for years. I remember back in
1983 in a prestigious Toronto Technical college, having read a spate of
remaindered issues of "Electronics" and "Byte", I asked about UNIX,
only to
be greeted with looks of incomprehension by all my teachers. Needless to
say, I was a little less awed by their acuteness after that.
Lawrence
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lgwalker(a)mts.net
This is
correct, the primary problem lies w/ teachers spewing GIGO,
good teachers is percious few.
Too true... my brother-in-law was doing a C++ course earlier this year and
sent me one of his assignments to have a look at. Imagine my horror when I
looked at the bit of code his teacher had given him to work from and the
first 5 lines were "#include <whatever.cpp>" ...
There have been an alarming number of interviews where I've asked a graddie
(who's supposedly been studying Java for a year) what the significance of
java.lang.Object was, only to be greeted by incomprehension. What do they teach
these people? At least they've moved towards Java now, 5 years ago I used to ask
graddies who "knew C++" what a pointer was and get answers like "it's
that arrow
thing on the screen that you move around with the mouse".
And Tony Blair wants to make us a nation of IT excellence :-) Hmmm.
-al 
1:10 p.m.
Well unfortunately. this has been going on for years.
I remember back in
1983 in a prestigious Toronto Technical college, having read a spate of
remaindered issues of "Electronics" and "Byte", I asked about UNIX,
only to
be greeted with looks of incomprehension by all my teachers. Needless to
say, I was a little less awed by their acuteness after that.
OTOH one of my professors from UC Riverside Cal. spent a year a Bell Labs,
and was incomprehensible for a good year or more afterwards. Just too
leading edge for just about ANYBODY to grasp outside of the immersed
environment of Bell Labs.
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