Curricula (was: Assembly vs. Everything Else

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Sun Aug 19 20:00:00 2001

It was thus said that the Great Tony Duell once stated:
>
> Had I been _giving_ the course, I might have taught the 80386, etc. But
> the final exam would have been about the 68020. Of course I'd have
> provided Motorola data sheets for said exam. The idea would be to test
> not what the students could remember but what they could work out. The
> latter is a much more useful skill.

  And the students would probably scream bloody murder to the Dean.

  I used to bitch and moan about the stupidity of classes at college [1],
until one day one of the staff reported that the Dean of the CompSci
department kept getting students in his office often complaining about the
difficulty of so-and-so's course and it's unfair to them that the course is
so difficult whine whine whine ... so of course the instructor was told to
make the class easier. Or the students complained that they weren't
learning [insert current industry fad here] and how they were going to be
unemployable whine whine whine ...

  I don't like it either.

  -spc (``Is this going to be on the test? They why the #_at_#$@ are you
        even mentioning it?'')
Received on Sun Aug 19 2001 - 20:00:00 BST