All,
Perhaps we then have a second "attribute" in the quest for good ICT
education- not only the "Barry effect" but the responsiveness of Barry's
offspring? Although there are more young people entering IT courses in
Australian universities today, the numbers are boosted enormously by
international students. Local students (and especially females) are not
flocking to learn and when they do, it is not the "hard" end of computer
science/engineering they choose but the more people oriented skills. Is
that a bad thing?
Clive.
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Nick Smith wrote:
>
> I would echo Danny's comment about the importance of the 'Barry Effect'. My
> cousin had a Commodore 64 which both families used a lot.
> Typing in games was hours and hours of tedious copying from magazine to
> screen. What we typed was pure gobbledegook to us; I can't say we learnt a
> single thing about the programming languages that these games were coded
> in...
>
> And then the debugging took a long time.
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