Quoting Bong Munoz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes, we're a pathetic lot. Brian's notion of academic > Darwinism appeals to my neanderthal senses -- I would've > been one of the earliest victims.
Bong!!! The phoenix rises from the ashes!! Welcome home!! > However, if you just want to incubate uber geeks to crush > the competition in these ACM contests then that should be > fairly easy -- just raid the local science high schools > and put the candidates through an intense crash course in > computer science where they exit with the equivalent of a > masters degree (isn't that like a licentiate?). ... We've already started on this course. The Ateneo teams (contestants and a coach) included a few graduates from PSHS, but so did UP's team. And the UP teams could have better with more love and commitment from their mentors (Feria: hint hint). > Can you imagine writing write-once code with no thought to > reusability? Heaven! But there is no such thing. Every little piece of code that you write today you can cut portions of and reuse in another application tomorrow. Code that is not worth reusing is not worth writing in the first place. > The new generation of teachers seem to enjoy > what they're doing. Yes. I can think of Sacha Chua, and Eric Vidal, and their friends in the other schools. I wish Jerome Punzalan would teach, even only part time. > As Alan Perlis said, "I think that it's > extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in > computing."* Amen to that. > Party on! And as you used to say: Cheers, glug, glug, ... P~Manalastas -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
