--- On Wed, 8/13/08, Slim Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That doesn't seem like a choice at all.
The Ateneo compsci labs are walk-in labs. The PCs dual boot to WinXP / Ubuntu. What the student chooses to actually boot is up to him. That's the choice. > Would the > students be required > to have Windows in their home computers? The school has nothing to do with what the students put in their home computers or laptops. Such a requirement would be absurd, at the very least. > Or could they do, > let's say, > their homework at the compsci labs for free? Students requiring computers for their work (not only compsci students) pay some computer lab fee. That entitles them to walk into the labs and use the computers there, to do their homework, or anything that's legal but not necessarily connected with school work. So compsci lab use is not really for free, because students pay a lab fee. But that is true for all schools. > > Any of UP/UPLB/Ateneo/DLSU is a good choice. If you > have the money and the > > brains, you should go to Ateneo or DLSU, and give the > UP/UPLB slot to the > > poor but brainy students. > How about the bourgeois but brainy students 8-)? Isn't that the question I just answered? > It's just > that the best > learning comes not from being taught by a competent or > incompetent > teacher but from what the student his/herself does as part > of the > coursework. True. Learning is best when the student does it himself. But a good teacher makes the job of learning a lot easier. Take the case of the proof of the "master theorem" in section 4.3-4.4, pages 73-84 in "Introduction to Algorithms" by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, and Stein. A student with a knowledge of summation of series and mathematical induction, working alone, might take at least a whole day to read and understand the proof. But with the help of a teacher, it might take him an hour to get the idea of the proof. > I'd hate to be > treated by a doctor who was taught by incompetent > instructors. That is why I am suggesting that the quality of faculty, among other things, be taken into consideration when choosing a school, and not just the use of "open source". P~Manalastas _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
