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Subject : Re: LUG: Schedule for the coming semester - ideas

From : Alex Poulos <apviper@gmail.[redacted]>

Date : Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:46:44 -0500

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I'd like to throw in another purpose of E115:  basic computer competency.  I know a mechanical engineer that didn't use a computer until high school, and had very little concept of even how e-mail worked coming to college.  The guy is quite intelligent in terms of critical thinking skills, he had just never been exposed to computers coming from a more rural background.  Even though a smart guy, he had to go to office hours to get through E115.  While extreme, we need to consider these types of people too.  His situation is diametrically opposed to many on this list, who I imagine got involved with Linux and programming back in High School or earlier.  Perhaps we need another course to teach basic computer skills for those who lack them.  A more specific E115 might be good, but all Engineering majors have a programming requirement IIRC, so basic exposure to programming (perhaps instead of HTML) would be beneficial, if only to show the useful things it can do and lessen the terror of later courses.



On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Alex < akdom2001@gmail.[redacted] > wrote:
Is that PERL for true?  I don't quite get the "1;" as an entire email to the list...


On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:16 PM, < imkilgor@ncsu.[redacted] > wrote:
> A web programming education that leaves students thinking
> that
> 1995 web programming techniques are the correct (or only) way to make a
> website is not really an education. Between the poor quality of the
> segment
> and my perceived lack of utility of the skill, I suggest cutting it out of
> the curriculum.
>
> -Brian
>

1;

--
ik


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