On 12 September 2010 21:39, <[email protected]> wrote: > People write code to solve problems that are facing them,
True. But we're talking about developing their skills, so that when a problem comes, they'll have a headstart to solving it. > so how can you tell a guy from Kihihi to code for a robot? The guy thinks > that robots only exist in movies. So we bring robots to him. Or are you saying that exposing him to robots is a bad thing? If a guy from Kihihi is doing Computer Science at university level, surely it's not too much to expect for him to learn new technological advances? > My solution is maybe we should not gauge ourselves on Google summer of code > and try to write codes to solve our current problems. > And what are these current problems? > I am sure that universities abroad receive huge sums of money from their > governments GSoC gives 5000 USD to an individual student to write code for an open source project. > to do what they do and yet for us even getting internet is a challenge. So > maybe we should stop looking at them and look at ourselves. That's a very close-minded view. If we don't learn from others, we'll just repeat their mistakes. (Didn't someone wiser than me once say that?) > Some of the people complaining about this are lecturers and people who own > software companies, so what are you going to do about that yourselves?? Maybe your email should have focused and expanded on this point.... P. > Eugene MUNYANEZA > Makerere University > Faculty of Computing and Information Technology > Bachelor of Science in Computer Science > Year 3 Question: If I want to hire you to write robotics software for my company when you finish "Year 3", will you refuse because it doesn't address your problems from Kihihi? > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > --------------------------------------- > >
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