[oclug] Student Knowledge(was: Evil, Evil Everywhere)

[Trevor Curtis]

> Realistically, students should be graduating with HTML, js, php, and perl
> experience above all else.  These are the most widely used languages of the day
> (let's not talk about asp, it pains me that it exists).
> 
> These languages above all else will be / are used on the web extensively, and
> knowledge of them will most certainly allow better control over the media that
> shapes our lives.
> 

It's funny you mentioned what a student's knowledge should be at
graduation time. I've done coops at the same place for what will be 5
years this summer. I've had/seen managers who are absolutely
astonished that their coops *only* know one OS. At my work the
developers use Solaris quite extensively, and many coops are totally
confused when they are presented with the command line. 

Through my school, I would really like to see exposure to as many OS's
as possible (ie, MacOS, VAX, VMS...).  It seems wrong that ppl are
taught using only one, or two OS's.  I could see how that would be
expensive though.

As far as languages though, I've found that C is inescapable, and I
guess C++ but to a lesser extent.

Take all this with a grain of salt.  I haven't finished school
yet... ;)

just a thought,
-- 
Trevor Curtis
http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~tcurtis
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