+1 from me. Very important to keep in contact with the academic institutions, apply pressure on them to improve.
P. On Sep 11, 2010, at 16:49, Simon Vass wrote: > As the old adage says those who can do. Those who can't teach. Sometimes this > is too often the case in University's including the UK. > > Seriously though the quality of teaching does have a big part to play. I > would hazard a guess at how many of these lectures have programmed in > commercial environments. That having been said I also think students need to > be taught to learn for themselves. Programming takes time and contact time > with equipment. How many students have access to a computer from a young age > for any significant period of time? This will change with time but is another > reason why the second hand computer ban last year was so heinous in my mind. > > Google I know from conversations I have had with their staff would love to > have more student enter the competition from Africa and E.A. Does this take > more work from them or us. I'd say both. Tim, I love the fact your spending > time mentoring students at Mak in OSS programming and this should be highly > commended. > > I think this is exactly one of the reason we hosted the Google+Python event > last month. We need to keep doing this a community, pushing our universities. > I for one have been promising Michael to sit down and offer him ideas on how > we can improve the curriculum at Makerere, I think making sure each class has > entrants in to the GsoC and other projects would be one. > > We also clearly need to engage students before University, what's the best > way for us to do this? Talk to ministries about changes to the curriculum, > having a better engagement with students? Are programming tenants being > taught at O-Level and A-Level? > > We also now have the iHive which is available to students/anyone working on > programming projects. Can this be utilized more? After school clubs? > >> And you think the kind of lecturer who uses "Teach yourself C in >> 21 days" has a chance in hell of motivating students? > > Its a start, if this is all he/she uses then clearly it's not enough. As a > quick start into the principles of programming it's fine. > > > > > > Simon Vass > Technical Manager > E-Tech Uganda Ltd > > http://www.etech.ug > Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621 > email: [email protected] > skype: e-techservicedesk > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mwirima Byaruhanga" <[email protected]> > To: "Linux Users Group Uganda" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, 11 September, 2010 4:11:40 PM > Subject: Re: [LUG] Google summer of code > > Paul Bagyenda wrote thus on 9/11/10 11:00 AM: >> And you think the kind of lecturer who uses "Teach yourself C in >> 21 days" has a chance in hell of motivating students? > > Yes and yes. One does not necessarily have to be the guru on a > subject to motivate/lead at it. > > Unrelated but somewhat similar, what did John Sculley know about > computers when he (sort of) rescued apple ;) ? > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
