From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,84e44219768a6d78 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Theodore E. Dennison" Subject: Re: Ada95: The Real Job Market and College Life Date: 1996/04/10 Message-ID: <316BAB5A.41C67EA6@escmail.orl.mmc.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 146723853 references: <00001a73+00002cbb@msn.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Lockheed Martin Information Systems mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Date: 1996-04-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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. | Work - mailto:dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com | | Home - mailto:dennison@iag.net | | URL - http://www.iag.net/~dennison |