Re: Unicode in the Curriculum?

2015-12-30 Thread Manuel Strehl
Not technically a school, but I gave a Batman-themed high-level overview of Unicode at Munich's local JavaScript user group two years ago: http://www.manuel-strehl.de/publications/holy-batman/presentation It was well received, especially for its lighter tone on this perceived dry subject, and for

Re: Unicode in the Curriculum?

2015-12-30 Thread Don Osborn
Good question and interesting responses so far. I've taken the opportunity to expand on it quickly in the hopes of eliciting some information from Africa. See http://niamey.blogspot.com/2015/12/unicode-in-african-computer-science.html Note mention of the Hausa and Fulfulde apps developed by co

RE: Unicode in the Curriculum?

2015-12-30 Thread Phillips, Addison
> A few months ago I asked a class of 140+ first year Computer Science > programme and Joint programme students - > > Who has heard of Unicode? I do a similar survey whenever I teach the remedial I18N and Unicode classes at Amazon. When I ask if software developers *ever* received any formal edu

Re: Unicode in the Curriculum?

2015-12-30 Thread Janusz S. Bien
Quote/Cytat - Andre Schappo (śro, 30 gru 2015, 17:16:09): Does anyone on this list teach Unicode at an Educational Establishment, School, or College or University? In a sense: https://usosweb.uw.edu.pl/kontroler.php?_action=katalog2/przedmioty/pokazPrzedmiot&kod=3322-TUS-OG Regards Ja

Unicode in the Curriculum?

2015-12-30 Thread Andre Schappo
A few months ago I asked a class of 140+ first year Computer Science programme and Joint programme students - Who has heard of Unicode? about 20% of the students raised their hands. then I quickly followed it with the question …and who understands Unicode? Every single student whose hand was