Don, you need to re-read my post ... it was the business systems analysis course that used nine year old material.
I correct myself however since many of the techniques of 1975 were still valid in 1984, and even today. Rather than use the word "obsolete", I should have written that Shelley and Cashman of 1975 was devoid of substantial advances regarding hardware evolution and software methodologies that were mainstream and/or leading edge in 1984. The business systems analyst, while not necessarily a programmer herself/himself, needs to have a sufficient understanding of technology in order to design and develop a solution that can appropriately take advantage of the available technology. I currently am developing some software in assembler. imo, assembler is never obsolete ... it is often the best tool for many applications ... every programmer can benefit from an understanding of assembler, even when writing in languages that offer higher abstraction. It seems that assembler courses are in fact machine language course with mnemonics making it easier to get the machine language syntactically correct. imo a good assembler course goes beyond the machine language by teaching appropriate programming techniques. regards, gerry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
