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>Well, that can be arranged - provided that UPManila provide me with transpo >(hatid-sundo hehe) and a higher per hour rate. hehehe... Mukhang malabo yon... sabi raw wala raw pera ang UP eh :) >I have heard not so good feedback regarding the CS program in Manila. I haven't heard any since I started, and probably even after I graduate (hopefully) from UP Manila CS. To think na yung mga "totoong" prof ng comsci (including Dr. Roxas of UPLB na naging prof ko rin) ang nawala at lumipat ng ibang university because they can't stand the policies of our department (ibang kaso't kwento naman yon) and are continuously dwindling by the moment. But I'm still hoping that despite the challenges, employment of free software be mainstream in UP Manila CS. We in ILUG are for free and open source software advocacy (and open for all free and open source software advocates from the University of the Philippines), though Manila-centric kami kasi taga-roon kami. At sana magkaroon ng pagbabago sa department namin. di kaya ng people power eh... Jijo - mukhang magtitiis ka pa ng konti... you can always rant about it anyway :) >I'd recommend that you shift to Diliman while you still have a chance. Perhaps >you can be one of my lead student assistants. ;-) Jijo, pwede mo pang salbahin ang sarili mo :) >Teaching a programming language is necessary. It helps in training students >on how to solve problems and implement their solutions using a programming >language. However, teaching Java in Data Structures is not ideal because of >the fact that Java does not have pointers. Learning pointers is fun - and >necessary in implementing various data structures. This is the reason why we >are teaching students Java AND C prior to the Data Structures. And I do >agree, students do have their choice of programming language to use - except >when teachers require certain languages, of course. As always, a PL is not for all problems. But problems can be attacked better with a particular PL as composed to others, that there exists a PL suited for a particular problem. Like Fortran is quite good for most mathematical exercises, while Prolog is adept for constraints-based logical programming. Pointers, on the other hand, would tie one to the constraints of a particular platform, such as the sizes of the primitives and other defined data structures. Not that it is bad, as the programmer is forced to be more careful to program, which in itself is a good thing. Pointers are typically hard to trace and debug, (but can be made a bit easier by good programming practice) especially in an "OS" that has a tough time in dealing with message passing that involves pointers as parameters when invoking system calls, and are far more efficient than making simulations of them in Java, which is sometimes has a considerable overhead. Paolo Alexis Falcone <ILUG Promotion>Please join ILUG. ILUG or the "Isko't Iska Linux Users' Group" - as coined by Jijo, caters to Linux users and OSS/FS advocates in the University of the Philippines System and everybuddy else interested. We're UP Manila-centric for now, but will open to a branch of UP near you soon. Visit banwa.upm.edu.ph to get to the ILUG mailing list subscription form. Konti pa lang kami kaya sali na! Mabuhay ang iskolar ng bayan!</ILUG Promotion> __________________________________ www.edsamail.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
