Paola Kathuria [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08-01-19 16.00
behalf of PPIG admin, I don't think anyone's gonna object!
I would ... I wouldn't visit yet another forum, takes way too
much time.
jem
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Jan Erik Moström, www.mostrom.pp.se
+1
Robin
On Jan 20, 2008 12:14 PM, Jan Erik Moström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Paola Kathuria [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08-01-19 16.00
behalf of PPIG admin, I don't think anyone's gonna object!
I would ... I wouldn't visit yet another forum, takes way too
much time.
jem
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Jan
- Original Message -
From: Richard Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Luke Church [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: PPIG discuss: Programmer education ain't what it used to be
Hi PPIG people. This is a topic very dear to my heart at the moment,
Richard Bartlett wrote:
I think I would
be tempted in more if the PPIG communications system wasn't so
unattractive, inefficient and clunky.. why can't it be a normal
bulletin board?
Oh, but it can.
PPIG has had two mailing lists since 1997; they're hosted
for free by the company I used to
I think Steven's analysis is very perceptive. A couple of comments
1. These are types of programming activity, not types of people.
2. Many people who carry out one of these activities during their career
also engage in at least one other.
I know quite a few people who work as IT consultants
Here are a few assertions, all with no evidence
1. Java is an excellent language
2. Java is a product of a history of programming language design ideas
which now stretches back around 50 years
3. If an undergrad with no previous knowledge of programming can get the
idea of Java/OOP in a few
Yes, and you can do the equivalent of malloc/calloc by asking for new
arrays or whatever at run-time.
The point is that the student should do this eg they should write their
own implementations of a linked list, tree, stack etc before they use
Sun's implementations of the container classes.
This highlights the issue of individual differences. I would guess most of
those Cambridge undergrads got 3 (or 4) As at A level. I'm coming across
American High School students who are being taught Java and can make no sense
of it. I'm not really bothered about able students, who will
