That hits the nail on the head. Availablity of a system where one can experiment and learn is the the key to produce skilled people. Unfortunately IBM scholar program does not address that. It takes lot more than a few programming assignments to learn these things. Without access to a system such courses can produce graduates who have completed a few excercises and test - kind of MSCE equivalent.
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:35:53 -0700, David Shein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >But the skills that actually got me hired, so I could eat, were JCL, >Assembler, and evidence that I had written some real-world, working >programs that solved actual problems. None of that -- let me repeat >for emphasis -- NONE of it! -- was learned in class. ALL of it was >learned after hours, on my own time, in the computer center, from >self-study and soliciting advice and help from people who already knew how. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
