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- From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: Licencing of computer professionals
- Message-ID: <BZS.92Dec23200613@world.std.com>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 01:06:13 GMT
- References: <bhayden.724494481@teal> <9212211525@drktowr.chi.il.us>
- Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
- Organization: The World
- Lines: 33
- In-Reply-To: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us's message of 23 Dec 92 11:44:44 GMT
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- Before licensing computer professionals perhaps they should think
- about certifying people who teach these skills in our universities
- (i.e. professors.)
-
- Lemme tell ya, your typical CS prof is a retreaded logician who may
- well have valuable contributions to make in his or her research field
- (and is only in CS because it pays more and has more grant
- opportunities and math depts have *real* standards due to the supply
- of good people), but when it comes to teaching practical skills
- they're only about 30 minutes ahead of their students in the textbook
- and mostly consider themselves to have gotten "stuck" teaching some
- programming or compilers course cuz of some foul deed they committed
- in a previous life.
-
- I've been there, and curriculum committee meetings! It's frightening,
- truly frightening to hear our children's educators demand course
- topics that were discontinued back when cars had fins due to
- obsolescence, and then find the rest of the room in total agreement!
-
- A few years ago when I was teaching they replaced my Unix/C systems
- programming course with one focusing on assemblers and link-loaders
- and the like, I mean...gak. And after the course started they
- discovered there really was no useable (in the old sense) assembler on
- the system...after the course started...
-
- You have to live it to believe it.
-
- --
- -Barry Shein
-
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