Hello Arthur, Wednesday, November 2, 2005, 7:42:54 AM, you wrote:
A> A business trip had me passing through New Haven. As a lover of books, and A> therefore bookstores, I took the opportunity to stop to look for a bookstore A> near the Yale campus - figuring I would find a bookstore with significantly A> more depth than those to which I normally have access. A> I was right. A> I will make this short. A> Without a question (IMO) - the least interesting section of the bookstore A> was the Computer area. Hundreds of how-tos on the commercial technologies A> currently hot. The end. A> Nothing worth talking about that precedes the current hot technologies - one A> would conclude from the book selection. A> Why would anyone spend $40,000 a year to study how-tos of technologies that A> will be obsolete by the time they are 30 - if not before. A> Its not even in the running as something worth considering. A> I am no more an intellectual than I am a comedian. But give me a good A> stand-up, or a facile, learned mind to try to follow and digest. A> Programming as an academic subject area is *way*, *way* off track - to the A> extent my little browse of yesterday was indicative of anything - which I do A> believe it was. Don't judge all of academia by a bookstore (especially a non-campus one). We don't chase faddish technology at UVSC, although we don't ignore what's in use either. This is a multi-faceted topic, not so easily dismissed with an anecdote or two. -- Best regards, Chuck _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
