🚀 go-pugleaf

  [BTW: I don't really think this belongs in the *.jobs areas.]

In article <1992Apr9.181249.29564@unixg.ubc.ca> buckland@ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland) writes:
>In article <1992Apr9.050944.737@cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
>>	It would appear that, in general, universities train CS students
>>to learn about computer science, and not 'how to program in language X'.

> A lot of what universities teach prepares the student for teaching
> and research in the subject.  Sometimes this directly conflicts
> with a student's goal of getting vocational training for a
> high-paying job, and a corporation's hope that the student will be

  My problem is that my classes *are* filled with students who want
vocational training. I really wish the bottom half of them *could* get
what they want at a community college, and the portion that doesn't
make it past second year *do* get jobs writing COBOL, dBMS, novell,etc.
  I still can't believe there are people that graduate from Carleton
with degrees in B.C.S.'s whose exposure to non-DOS machines includes
but 2 sparse weeks of Unix, and maybe some Ingres (under Unix). No
wonder I see all those adds for IBM mainframe programmers in Access.

  Fortunately, I'm usually too busy failing the physics part of my
combined honours to let this get me too down.
  
> support right now is history.  But try telling that to the manager
> whose whole life is devoted to the next quarterly report and to
> this year's production goals.

  Can you say ``five year plan''? I can :-)



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