A business trip had me passing through New Haven. As a lover of books, and therefore bookstores, I took the opportunity to stop to look for a bookstore near the Yale campus - figuring I would find a bookstore with significantly more depth than those to which I normally have access.
I was right. I will make this short. Without a question (IMO) - the least interesting section of the bookstore was the Computer area. Hundreds of how-tos on the commercial technologies currently hot. The end. Nothing worth talking about that precedes the current hot technologies - one would conclude from the book selection. Why would anyone spend $40,000 a year to study how-tos of technologies that will be obsolete by the time they are 30 - if not before. Its not even in the running as something worth considering. I am no more an intellectual than I am a comedian. But give me a good stand-up, or a facile, learned mind to try to follow and digest. Programming as an academic subject area is *way*, *way* off track - to the extent my little browse of yesterday was indicative of anything - which I do believe it was. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
