>>> Few of the cs phds I've interviewed could do ANY of the tasks you >>> quote. None had to pass an exam in making programs that actually worked
That reminds me of the Sun Java 1.4 cert exam... that focused on cs style topics such as bit shifting, whereas 1.5 dropped that in favour of knowledge of the apis (io for example) - mainly to ensure people that passed the exam could actually do some 'real world' programming. -- Andrew Welch http://andrewjwelch.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
