At 08:55 AM 5/8/00 +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>On Sun, 7 May 2000, Jeff Stuart wrote:
>
> > [...rest of message deleted...]
> > > Every language has it use, the truly knowledgeable understand when to
> > > use each language:)
> >
> > > Sam
> > Amen to that!!! I think that this point and the point about writing GOOD
> > algorithms are VERY important ones and I think that it's important that
> this
> > be taught! I'm not sure if it's being taught now in school but in my day
> > (GOD I sound old :)) (1987-1991) it wasn't.
>
>I hear this very much depends what Uni you go to. I'm always surprised to
>hear that people _don't_ just learn pure algorithms and techniques at Uni
>- that's certainly all that appears to be taught here in the UK
>(learning languages has to be done on your own time generally, even ones
>that are a core part of your course).
Depends on your school. Many are under pressure to produce students that
can do work in particular technologies straight out of school. And not just
from the businesses, but by students who complain that they need to know
Java or how to configure NT servers to get a job.
On the worse side, I have seen universities in the USA get huge grants and
magically change their entire curriculum to something as daft as Ada just
because the grant came from an Ada-proponent. (note: ada is not a bad
language just a pretty hard to find anything written in it in the real
world language).
Hmmm, this is becoming very much like an off-topic slashdot thread.
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