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Yes, so many in the academic world are woefully behind the times
()and their students). Many years ago ( I won't say how many, but not
quite back to the stone age)I taught an Introductory DP Course.  After
the second
year i was not asked back.  I found out later that I was considered
uncooperative becuase I refused to teach by an antiquated sylabus that
did a disservice to the pupils!  So much for academicans....

Nick Demos  nmdemos@access,digex.net

On Sat, 18 Jan 1997 [log in to unmask] wrote:

> > In article <[log in to unmask]>, "Roger H. Levy"
> > <[log in to unmask]> writes
> > >I'm trying to determine the value of the introductory programming course
> > >taught at my son's high school.  They use an HP-3000 to teach Basic and
> > >something called "Reflection."  Since my son has already written Visual
> > >Basic programs, ...
> [snip]
>
> This message will not answer you question, this is just a complaint about
> schools. Your son is a lot more likely to learn something useful than the
> "keyboarding" class my son is taking in his high school that is really a
> typing class in disguise. They use a DOS program that emulates a typewriter
> which prevents using backspace and enforcing hitting <enter> at the end of
> each line! They are also forbidden to run Windows, even after finishing the
> assigned work.
>
> Regards,
> Richard Gambrell
>