Hi,
At 03:21 PM 1/16/02 +0800, you wrote: >>From: "Elfredy V. Cadapan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Unfortunately, I think the problem stems from the fact that 80% of all CS >>students nowadays are taking computer science not because they like >>programming, but because their parents want them to. Uso kasi. >... [snipped] ... > > 80%, wow! and this is from UP. Pero know what, I agree > with your observation - I think that there's a higher > percentage of CS students (not only in UP) who are into it > not because they like computers or programming but for > other reasons (uso, there's money, parents, etc.) I don't think that this is the case for UP Diliman. They won't survive the course if they are not serious about it. The teachers are very demanding... >Code re-use :) The Holy Grail of Object-Oriented Programming? >Me guilty as charge of code re-use :) Whether it be >ActiveX (VB), modules (Perl), classes/functions (Java/PHP). >With Javascript minsan pa nga note code re-use na eh - >cut-and-paste. But then again, students should be discouraged >from getting too much of their code from the 'Net - maybe >one or two controls/functions/classes. This is not a very bad practice but I do require students to write their own code - unless it takes a lot of time and resources to do so. Cheers! _ 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]
