Hi, On Sep 4, 2:11 pm, Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > See the new syllabus of CUSAT for Btech. > These guys are still prescribing Microsoft stuff.
This syllabus worries me a little - not by the fact that it doesn't include FOSS, but by the altogether pointlessness. Use of MS Word, Powerpoint and array manipulation in an engineering syllabus? I would have expected the student to have completed all that by junior high school. And that too by my standard - I first operated a PC only in 5th std, and got one of my own only by 10th. Even so, the 12th std practical exam question was much tougher than any of the listed exercises in the syllabus. I was expecting the standard to be much higher these days -even for college freshmen. Anyone capable of getting into engineering stream should be able to pick up most of these by themselves (word and powerpoint are taught in std 5). The Raspberry Pi was created to raise the standard of school students. If this is what we have in engineering colleges, I don't fancy the chances much. I wish they concentrated more on programming and (elementary) algorithms and may be a few tools like debuggers and version control (yes, we had VCS in college). They seem to include some of these in the theory paper (1108 COMPUTER PROGRAMMING), but I would much prefer to practise those than mug it up entirely from book (especially things like file manipulation). That one paper is going to create many computer-science haters. Regards, Gokul Das -- "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 control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
