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    Quote Originally Posted by laserlight View Post
    Hmm... a quick search of the Web shows that this guy said programming is easy: Programming is Easy, Software Development is Hard
    LOL... like I said... "nobody" said that...

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    Quote Originally Posted by CommonTater View Post
    I might form the impression that the *teachers* are the ones scared by the new standards and just plain too lazy to upgrade their own skills and curriculum to embrace them.... at their student's expense.
    it's equally likely that the teachers do not understand what they are teaching, and they are using the predefined curriculum as a crutch. if they were to update to a newer standard, they would have to re-learn what it took them many years to fake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elkvis View Post
    it's equally likely that the teachers do not understand what they are teaching, and they are using the predefined curriculum as a crutch. if they were to update to a newer standard, they would have to re-learn what it took them many years to fake.
    Now ain't that the truth! I often wonder how many of these so called professors are actually programmers...

    As in.. If I sat one of them down with a problem that is not part of the curriculum ...
    Lets say the one I had last fall, converting music playlists in multiple unicode formats, from multiple platforms to .M3U utf8...
    Could they code a solution?

    I'd bet there are a significant number of them who could not.

    Some years ago I proposed a "report card for teachers" as part of new regulations in my province. The idea was that after each semester, high school students had a chance to anonymously grade their teacher's performance in the classroom... I still think it's a good idea, perhaps even moreso for university and college professors...
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    Quote Originally Posted by CommonTater View Post
    Now ain't that the truth! I often wonder how many of these so called professors are actually programmers...

    As in.. If I sat one of them down with a problem that is not part of the curriculum ...
    Lets say the one I had last fall, converting music playlists in multiple unicode formats, from multiple platforms to .M3U utf8...
    Could they code a solution?

    I'd bet there are a significant number of them who could not.
    Indeed it is. A past friend of mine had taught C# at a community college for a couple years, and he completely admitted this, and did _not_ consider himself a programmer (in fairness, he wasn't a professor either). He's the only professional programming teacher I've ever known, so I can't speak with much experience on the matter. But as of now... 1 out of 1, aren't programmers

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    Maybe there's some truth to the old saying: "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach"... sad

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