On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Otandeka Simon Peter <[email protected]>wrote:
> The problem could be, there are hardly any lecturers or project supervisors > doing some serious(hard core) programming or understand programming from > first principles (even in PHP :-) ) to challenge the students to write such > C or C++ programs. I stand to be corrected :-) > > You do not need to be corrected. I was taught C and C++ by a brilliant lecturer who needed no textbooks to come up with a program or explain what pointers are. He left the country for a better paying job in the US, hired to write code for some new silicon valley project. As a result of what I learnt from him, I went ahead to write my second project in C++, Perl and use libpcap, to which, my then lecturer decided to pass me since, in his own words, the application was too complicated for his understanding and it looked like I knew what I was doing and talking about. Even if you have a student who is interested and has tried to read further, if your mentor/tutor has no skills that can match the student, its a matter of time before the student looses morale. As with any thing being taught, if the student is not interested, then we cannot have brilliant minds that can make a change in a given field. Worse, if we have a lecture who has limited knowledge in the element that he is teaching, expect a bunch of students who will come out of that unit with little or nothing at all. -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ------------------------------------------------------------
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