On 6/14/05, Dave O Connor <doc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not so much 'brainwashed by MS' as brainwashed by the typical Irish
> attitude of 'Get in, get the grades, get the degree, make the money'.
> The vast majority of Irish computing students aren't actually all that
> interested in computing as a subject (or as an art). They've either
> been mesmerised by the potential money they could be making, or think
> it'll be easy and fun. Very few computer courses in Ireland encourage
> them to rise above that.
Bollocks. I see no evidence of this. Can you back this up, please?
In my class, probably half were true and true geeks: code in college,
code at home, talk about computers in the pub. And my class entered at
the height of the bubble. Kids coming in to college these days can
code before they get there!
Paul
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