Dan Armak wrote on 2003-06-05: > On Thursday 05 June 2003 00:07, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > > > > Then they don't try hard enough. There are a lot of things in schools > > that computers could be used for. Gate logic classes could really use > > a lab with a gate simulator. Electronics students could use > > simulators (spice). Physics classes could surely benefit from some > > field simulations, etc (and not only using excel to record lab > > results). Math teachers could use a LaTeX or LyX course $:-)$ so the > > math homeworks stop to contain RTL formulas [1]_. Etc. etc. etc. > > I envy you. My highschool has no gate logic or enectronics classes,
It was Ort Kiryat Bialik (19 parallel classes, yeah we had a lot of choices :). > physics classes don't use excel (we write down lab results by hand, > and even extrapolate them into graphs and general formulas > manually), You didn't lose that much :-). > and math teachers don't usually accept printed homework. > > (Well, the last may be because I didn't study math @ school, and mostly > everyone else there doesn't know about lyx/latex, and using msword for it is > a losing proposition...) > I didn't mean accepting printed HWs bu handing out printed HWs. My brother's teachers (Reali Hadar, Haifa) do hand out printed HWs and they are writen in Word and they do lose, both from typographical POV (they don't even use eq. editor most of the time) and because of bidi effects: (12-(7+ etc... > > Hacking is taught very badly at all but don't get me started on that. > > Hacking is _taught_? Where? I'll want to send my children to that school :-) That's what I meant to say :-). They don't teach hacking at all, they teach "computer science". I was lucky to get a good teacher (she had some clue, e.g. taught Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm on the second day or so and she didn't care if I miss the classes :). Yet I'm unsure that any of the teachers in that school wrote a single real program (that somebody else would want to use) since they became teachers. That's probably a too strong accusation but not by much. > I know the one I went to teaches 5pts just like you describe below. > This isn't programming of any kind they teach (the basic staple of > homework being never, ever to use language features not taught in > class) and the teachers usually don't know themselves WTH they're > talking about. > -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Three Laws of Copy-Protechnics: http://www.technion.ac.il/~cben/threelaws.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
