Excellent Strategy..:-)

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"Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Wes Groleau" <groleau@freeshell.org> wrote in message
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> > Offer to tutor Comp. Sci./Soft. Eng. at your local
> > Univ.  While helping with whatever topic, look for
> > opportunities to gently raise awareness.
> >
> > Some guidelines:
> >
> > 1. Don't be a jerk or language bigot.
> >
> > 2. DO help the student with the _actual_ topic
> >     of their class.  When tempted to say,
> >     "A better way is to just do it in Ada,"
> >     it's time to remember guideline #1
>
> It is just so tough when you see a student scream at the link error
messages
> produced by
>
> cin << "Hello World" << endl;
>
> ;-)  usually at that point the students are willing to switch, but I wait
> patiently until the students ask me "How can you stand programming in C++"
> then I tell them that I don't have too. ;-0
>
> -CRM
>
>