Its not about teaching. Its about the freedom of the student to do his project in what ever language he likes.
http://www.kenneyjacob.com Kenney Jacob On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Jayson Joseph Chacko <[email protected]>wrote: > >> There are a few colleges which dont allow students to use PHP > > I don't personally recommend PHP for *teaching* purpose. PHP is easy and > powerful. > But many including myself think it is not the best language to teach > computer programming (since it is not the best language to teach programming > fundamentals especially object oriented programming). > > >>Some say web apps are sub standard. Is there anything that we can do to > prevent such nonsense ? > It will auto correct itself when people of your age become professors in > next 5 - 10 years :-) > > > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:59 PM, .Kenney Jacob <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I wanted to make this into the attention of the community. >> >> In many engineering colleges across Kerala, students are not given the >> freedom to choose their project topics. There are a few colleges which dont >> allow students to use PHP, saying that its too simple/hard. Some say web >> apps are sub standard. >> >> Is there anything that we can do to prevent such nonsense ? >> >> >> http://www.kenneyjacob.com >> Kenney Jacob >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
