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- From: mtj@adam.unbsj.ca (Mike Jory)
- Subject: Re: Experience, Experience, Experience !!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.202104.10247@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
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- Organization: University of New Brunswick, Saint John
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:21:04 GMT
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- >> says <DGILBERT.93Jan24155516@jaywon.pci.on.ca> Sun, 24 Jan 1993 15:55:16 GMT
-
- > We teach one course in `C', and one course in COBOL. In neither
- >is the language actually taught... students should emphirically `know'
- >them. We often use DOS, we occaisonally use UN*X ... but they're not
- >`taught' --- just used. No OS/2, No Windows, No X-Windows... etc. on
- >down the line. People need this to be useful.
-
- No, that is not the problem. The problem is you don't know how to learn.
- The languages 'C' and COBOL are taught in a very practical manner - through
- large coding assignments. As a point of reference for others the course
- with 'C' in it covers to double pointers.
-
- How do I know? I am the T.A. that taught the COBOL course 9 times and the 'C'
- course 3 times. I am one of the people here at Guelph that has their code
- incorporated into BSD Unix. I know what _I'm_ talking about. I was your T.A.
-
- You want useful people? Tell them to stop dreaming about being an "analyst"
- without learning to code. Time to stop blaming others and take a good
- look at yourself - and do something about it.
-
- -Rodney Ruddock
- University of Guelph
- rodney@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca
-
- [posted with the permission of and via: ]
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