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Article #669Re: Collaboration WAS: E-mail Privacy
From: Tim Chown
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 11:56
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 11:56
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In <1991Jun12.214805.13737@bellcore.bellcore.com> jona@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Jon Alperin) writes: >You know.... > When I was a student, I felt this exact same way. If in the business world we >are so often called upon to work in a group setting, and many large scale >computer applications require the interactions and teamwork of many people >(which includes the liberal re-use of code written by others) what makes >the eductaional system continually work at the opposite goals. Is the real goal >of the educational system to prepare students for PhD's in research, or to >prepare them with the skills necessary to life a comfortable life? But a degree is awarded on the basis of *your* skills at design/coding and on *your* ability to interact in a group project, not somebody else's! A good CS degree has management/teamwork skills built in (ours does, quick plug ;-), but should still demand individual performance. Tim --
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!tjc From: tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tim Chown) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Collaboration WAS: E-mail Privacy Message-ID: <8162@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Date: 14 Jun 91 11:56:18 GMT References: <50318@muvms3.bitnet> <3651@happym.WA.COM> <8114@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <1991Jun12.155230.17992@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1991Jun12.214805.13737@bellcore.bellcore.com> Organization: University of Southampton, UK Lines: 19