On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 10:18 -0700, Carl Jokl wrote: > Maybe the UK University system will be bought out by Tesco. > > All hail Tesco.
Like Macdonald's bought the USA school system? > I remember the 80's and by golly they were awesome and we are not > talking the regular kind of awesome rather the double fireball attack, > laser dynamite rocket underpants ninja nuclear plasma war rabbit kind > of awesome. Except for the recession but I was a child so that wasn't > my problem. What I liked about the 1980s was that at UCL we were able to teach the first course in programming for computer scientists using Miranda for 10 weeks then C++ for 10 weeks. I like to think we created a more rounded sort of programmer than the current system does. Of course we taught economists, physicists and chemists Fortran just as they asked. And C to the electronics engineers, because they thought C++ was too airy fairy -- classes, that not real code. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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