From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 7 May 93 16:09:57 GMT From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@ucbvax .Berkeley.EDU (Michael Feldman) Subject: Re: Courseware available in SE, OOD, OOP Message-ID: <1993May7.160957.28096@seas.gwu.edu> List-Id: In article srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes: > Great. One more way to make it harder for any Ada company trying to >sell Ada courseware. Karl must be smiling once again. > Oh, for Heaven's sake, Greg. This is not competition for the courseware companies, whose clients are (and should be) industry. This is one outcome of the curriculum development project for _university_ courseware. Even if there were enough content similarity to go both ways, universities typically have little or no courseware budget. But the two needs are very different, should be served by different software/courseware. This is similar to a long line of curriculum development/improvement programs sponsored traditionally by NSF. I don't think industry has bitched about these, because they see them as improving college education. Why must we constantly be mixing apples and oranges? Back off till you've done your homework... Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman co-chair, SIGAda Education Committee Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science School of Engineering and Applied Science The George Washington University Washington, DC 20052 USA (202) 994-5253 (voice) (202) 994-5296 (fax) mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) "The most important thing is to be sincere, and once you've learned how to fake that, you've got it made." -- old show-business adage ------------------------------------------------------------------------