Having taught a college course in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, I saw the current curriculum and unfortunately, the ladderized system negatively affected it by using up the first 2 years in Computer Hardware Servicing, which saturated that market while eroding the valuable time for more relevant training and exposure to free and open source technology, especially in software development and current practices. Worse, there are instructors who use technologies that were relevant 10 to 20 years ago, imagine teaching C using Turbo C or Turbo C++ and using MASM and/or TASM for assembly language, while access to internet is regulated, more of a feature for the brochure to lure in new students and not for the maximized benefit of the academe, especially the students. The students are also partly guilty, focusing on playing online games, rather than learning the science behind it to be a produce not just a consumer of games. The solution I think is just like religious salvation: it's individual and to each his own. If a student is really seriously pursuing the path to excel in this field, the opportunity is more widely open now than in the 90s and early 2000s.
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 3:29 AM, Rogelio Serrano <[email protected]>wrote: > How active is the open source development scene in the Philippines? > Writing open source code is the best way to learn computer science and I'm > still at it 14 years on. With cost of a college education being a colossal > bubble I'm wondering if our fellow Filipinos even engage in it. > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >
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