True. But we're talking about developing their skills, so that when a
problem comes, they'll have a headstart to solving it.
Try and find out what kind of skills the americans had 200 years ago and
compare them to Uganda today and u will get what I am saying.
Its true we should get a head start and we are trying, personally I have
taught myself so many things, socket programming, python and the likes and I
am making good effort to do that. I can tell you this for a fact that very
few MUK students are even following this discussion but I am and its not
like I can't facebook. But the other day I was learning C# and using
NHibernate the net was off for three days and since I could not ask anyone
or even get a book on it I had to wait until I could get one that someone
had e-mailed me. So if it is going to take 3 days to access material then I
think something needs to be done.
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?
I am sure FCIT students will be more than glad to have that robot.
And what are these current problems?
We are still doing manual paper based registration at MUK and the effort to
put there an online registration is not that clear. Last sem those who had
retakes and yet registered them online had to move many times between the
senate and the faculty to de-register those courses and they spent a lot of
time trust me, which time can be put to better use. That is a small
solution, in Rwanda at the passport issuing offices they have a system which
gives out number and when ur number is reached u are served and it begins
from where it left off the previous day, I was once at the Ugandan one and
people leave work at their offices and spend weeks collecting a passport,
which time they can spend doing productive work.
In uk, even applying for a driving permit is done online and people save a
lot of time so maybe we can start with those few and when we are done I will
have other suggestions
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.
Compare 5000 USD to 800,000,000 USD science complex and you realise that
5000 USD is just a joke. Those student who work in 800,000,000 USD science
complex have the necessary skills to make that 5000 USD. I am dying to work
on a real life server and get the feel and understanding of how they operate
but unless I get a job where they have one I will never get that chance. I
have been using linux for my whole University life although I am using a mac
now which is still Unix based and I hope that they are the same.
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?)
Give me a server and I will learn how to use it but when u are hiring me and
u ask if I am familiar with some kind of server then expect a BIG NO.
This is not politics and we are not here to show that other people
suggestion are invalid but rather we are here to give our ideas and by the
time someone has experienced something and they point it out to be a problem
then take it serious. Its only in least developed countries where the wishes
of kids are taken as jokes but in developed countries people do work hard to
make sure that those wishes are met.
And by the way I have friends with first class CGPA's who can't even code in
php.
Eugene MUNYANEZA
Makerere University
Faculty of Computing and Information Technology
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Year 3
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