From: "Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com>
Subject: Re: Ada
Date: 2000/01/14
Date: 2000-01-14T18:24:38+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <387F69CB.F5957CAB@quadruscorp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2000Jan14.084231.1@eisner
Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>
> In article <85mpvr$mm42@ftp.kvaerner.com>, "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> writes:
> >
> > Magnus Alexandersson wrote:
> >>My school is dropping Ada for Java since the Ada books are hiedously
> >>expensive here in Sweden and Javabooks come by the tenfold...
> >
> >
> > Are the students time worthless?
>
> Perhaps even more money could be saved by changing the course to teach
> them how to program Excel spreadsheets.
>
Or let's just teach them how to use Notepad because it comes free with
Windows, has on-line documentation and is so simple that the students
wouldn't need to waste time even reading it. (Tongue firmly planted in
cheek)
Seriously: From what I've seen of Ada books, they aren't hugely out of
line with respect to price from books on other computer topics. College
level texts I've seen in the last couple of years on other topics have
been even more spendy than any of the Ada books I've purchased. The
largest cost of college is tuition. Why structure college courses around
the cost of books? (Maybe they could hire less expensive instructors?)
If I were Dean of the Computer Science department, I'd be more
interested in building a curriculum that presented important concepts in
the subject rather than picking topics because of current industry fads
or the cost of texts. But that's just me.
MDC
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Thread overview: 120+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-23 0:00 Ada Brijesh
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada Greg Martin
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada Jon Jensen
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada tmoran
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada Roger Racine
1999-12-28 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
1999-12-31 0:00 ` Ada Richard D Riehle
2000-01-02 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-02 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-02 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Roger Racine
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Charles Hixson
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Ted Dennison
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ada Magnus Alexandersson
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ada Magnus Alexandersson
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic [this message]
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Magnus Alexandersson
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada reason67
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Robert A Duff
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Florian Weimer
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Brian Rogoff
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Operators -> unit analysis Charles Hixson
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-10 0:00 ` Operator precedence--was " Howard W. LUDWIG
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Terry Sikes
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Terry Sikes
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-01-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-10 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-01-10 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Richard D Riehle
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Richard D Riehle
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Robert A Duff
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Ada Al Christians
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-01-26 20:06 Ada mcf501
2005-01-26 20:24 ` Ada Larry Kilgallen
2005-01-26 23:55 ` Ada Stephen Leake
2005-01-26 20:35 ` Ada Frank J. Lhota
2005-01-26 23:57 ` Ada Stephen Leake
2005-01-26 20:57 ` Ada Ludovic Brenta
2005-01-26 23:54 ` Ada Stephen Leake
2005-01-27 0:42 ` Ada Jeffrey Carter
2005-01-27 1:17 ` Ada Larry Kilgallen
2005-01-27 4:43 ` Ada u_int32_t
2005-01-27 8:10 ` Ada Larry Kilgallen
2005-01-27 21:01 ` Ada Björn Lundin
2005-01-27 7:57 ` Ada Frank Piron
2005-01-27 10:53 ` Ada Larry Kilgallen
2005-01-27 11:05 ` Ada Frank Piron
2005-01-27 11:19 ` Ada Adrien Plisson
2005-01-28 10:27 ` Ada Stephen Leake
2005-01-27 9:12 ` Ada Martin Krischik
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2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Andy Glew
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Chris Morgan
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Ada Andy Glew
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Ada Chris Morgan
1997-10-28 0:00 Ada N6101233
1997-08-23 0:00 Ada Jeffrey D. Iverson
1996-08-05 0:00 ada BCummi6553
1996-06-14 0:00 ADA Robert Adams
1990-03-12 2:14 A Poor Man's Ada Library Ted Holden
1990-03-12 5:08 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1990-03-15 20:32 ` Ada William B. Tyler
1990-03-16 14:08 ` Ada Dennis M. O'Connor
1990-03-08 18:46 ADA jj
1989-11-19 3:33 A farewell to Ada Ted Holden
1989-11-19 17:59 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-14 21:24 A farewell to Ada Ted Holden
1989-11-15 16:06 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-16 19:08 ` Ada Walter Rowe
1989-11-16 21:33 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-17 18:53 ` Ada Pablo Fernicola
1989-11-18 18:55 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-21 5:24 ` Ada Andrew Koenig
1989-11-22 9:54 ` Ada Mats Luthman
1989-11-22 18:44 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-23 9:44 ` Ada Mats Luthman
1989-11-23 7:12 ` Ada Markku Sakkinen
1989-11-18 6:38 ` Ada Marco S Hyman
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