This reminds me of a high school kid who was an MVP for Visual Basic 5 or 6. Mondo Smart, could assimilate everything in front of his eyeballs, etc etc.
Did you make any time to study toe ACM curricula guide for the core first two years of the computer science curricula ? If not, you should, as most ABET certified CompSci degree plans follow this curricula. A nice hard long lesson (imo) would be to study the first 200K line of the linux os source code, and back-learn everything presented, and get an understanding of WHY and HOW the code works. OTOH, if he just wants to knock out business applications, I can't think of a single thing wrong with plunking him down with VFP and the TakeNote Technologies v6 curricula (not free, btw) and turning him loose with it. But - there's 'learning' and then there's 'self-taught' - which route did you think he wanted to take? There's a lot to be said for instructor-led classroom lectures, and most of the compsci folk here took that 'classic' approach to learning about programming. Course, there's the math element as well - why bother to learn SQL-based algebra if you don't understand set theory ? Why learn how to compute confidence intervals via code if you don't know what one is or how to use it? Those are just examples, I would mostly stick with VFP as the assimilation time is minimal for non-programming types. Regards [Bill] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
