Re: [ossig] (Fwd) STI News: Firm discovers good IT help hard to find

[Loke Kar Seng <lks@webpres.com.my>]

> Now, they teach students to write visual basic programs....no principles taught here, just one
> non standard implementation of an old teaching language, which leads to bad programmer
> portability.
> What happened to teaching good programming principles in pascal ?

students are on a fast track, thinking of making tons of money after
graduation. So if you teach a dead language (ie not used commercially),
even though good in principle, who would sign up? Institutions need to
make money as well. So what do they teach? The latest and slickest. In
the interplay of mindset and economics, it is no wonder that knowledge
gets butted out. The media has a role to play to change mindset instead
of parroting IT company claims.

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