> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Arthur > Clever guy that I am, I reasoned that if I undertook to do something a bit > more serious - like learning Python - then what I needed to know to do > what > I need to do in VBA would get thrown in for free. Which is pretty much as > things have worked out.
Sorry to comment on my own comment, again - but I want to expand this thought a bit. When looked at from my personal frame of reference and the experience, among other things, as a business person - it is the old rules that work. My route to a practical, business-oriented understanding of technology included - probably as its most important effort - undertaking the effort of learning abstract mathematics with the help of a multi-paradigm Open Source programming language. If industry wants sharp C# folks, they are not going to get them by turning CS department into C# training grounds. They are industry - not their job to understand that. It is educators' job to understand that. Played by what I consider to be the older rules of the game, everybody wins. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
