From: "Theodore E. Dennison" <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: Ada95: The Real Job Market and College Life
Date: 1996/04/10
Date: 1996-04-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <316BAB5A.41C67EA6@escmail.orl.mmc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 00001a73+00002cbb@msn.com
Kenneth Mays wrote:
>
> I know I cast my opinions a bit much, but today was another slap in
> the face. Two local colleges local colleges were teaching Ada courses
> so I thought I'd pop over there to see what books they were using.
> Not to bad mouth the colleges, but they were STILL using books
> written in 1993 - and the compilers weren't Ada95 compilers. So, here
> is a note.
Speaking as someone taking a college course using a 6-month old book,
I'm quite happy to hear this. Using a brand-spanking new book in a
course is about as much fun as using version 1.0 of a commercial
software release. Two to three years old sounds about right.
> What do the jobs expect from graduating students? Many jobs prefer
> you know Ada (if Ada95 then great, but Ada83 is still used by many
> companies). Just
As a (proud?) holder of a B.S. degree in computer science from a
CSAB-accredited program, I can tell you I am a TINY minority among
my co-workers. So apparently we don't even expect a CS degree from
a graduating student!
--
T.E.D.
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1996-04-09 0:00 Ada95: The Real Job Market and College Life Kenneth Mays
1996-04-10 0:00 ` Brian Hauer
1996-04-10 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison [this message]
1996-04-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-11 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-04-11 0:00 ` waltersr
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