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: 103376,130577dc7a269470 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ted Dennison Subject: Re: Senior Professors Teaching Intro CS Date: 1996/12/09 Message-ID: <32AC44C8.794BDF32@escmail.orl.lmco.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 203312352 references: <32A488F2.27FC@fallschurch.esys.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Lockheed Martin Information Systems mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Date: 1996-12-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Mike O'Malley wrote: > > Prof. Feldman at GW (1991-1992). During the course (if you'll pardon > the pun) of these classes, I decided to change my major from business > administration to computer science. This decision was largely motivated > by the fact that I was exposed to a senior professor in these intro > courses- a recurring question during my freshman year was "Can I do this > for a living?". A TA would have been unable to answer that question, > not having been "out in the real world" himself. A senior professor, on > the other hand, has enough experience to provide examples of what life > in computer science is like. I had a very similar experience my freshman year at Tulane (although, I was an EE, not a business major at the time). My "CS1" teacher was only a PhD candidate, but he was the best teacher in the department and had a lot of real-world experience (and war-stories). My wife was a business major, and took an intro CS course from another graduate student who had NO real world experience and wasn't half the teacher (I took a course from him later, so I know). She had a miserable experience. Needless to say she stayed in the business school. The sad part is that she is actually pretty good with computers. -- T.E.D. | Work - mailto:dennison@escmail.orl.lmco.com | | Home - mailto:dennison@iag.net | | URL - http://www.iag.net/~dennison | ps. When he got his PhD, the fools let him leave to teach elsewhere.