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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9cccf6ef6149fdaa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin D. Condic" Subject: Re: Ada Date: 2000/01/14 Message-ID: <387F69CB.F5957CAB@quadruscorp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 572663005 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38620350.48F8FC08@gecm.com> <386216c3.172629337@news.draper.com> <38690E47.7DBDC2D1@quadruscorp.com> <387DE7E7.8BB2AE64@mtek.chalmers.se> <85mpvr$mm42@ftp.kvaerner.com> <2000Jan14.084231.1@eisner> Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Sender: "Marin D. Condic" (Unverified) X-Server-Date: 14 Jan 2000 18:24:38 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-14T18:24:38+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > > In article <85mpvr$mm42@ftp.kvaerner.com>, "Tarjei T. Jensen" 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 -- ============================================================= Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - 1.800.555.3393 1015-116 Atlantic Boulevard, Atlantic Beach, FL 32233 http://www.quadruscorp.com/ m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin." -- Allan Meltzer, Economist =============================================================