I have a suggestion which I believe will sort out this skills shortage once and for all...
Based on the premise* that most kids (in the UK at least) have trouble reading and writing when they leave school, we should all try and contribute to the lolcode.com effort and make this a viable language. Then all the 'young uns' could code in a subset of their native tongue: txt lnguge. *note this premise is based on a story I read in a paper that UK schools were considering some exam questions to be answered in txt language.... Just the non-English subject like maths, physics and maybe humanities you understand, nothing too important! Ben On 08/06/07, Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 07/06/07, Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How well do these university tests - with their closed conditions - > relate to > the work environment? How often would I be expected to solve a > restricted > set of problems without asking anybody for clarification of their > requirements, using debugging tools, etc, within a very tight three-hour > period? In response though - should a university be teaching workplace skills in the first place? There's a great difference between academia and commerce, which seems to be very valuable. Technical qualifications (traditionally available from colleges and polytechs as opposed to universities (though the distinctions are very blurred these days)) should cover that sort of stuff, IMO.
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