Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pdn!reggie
From: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: CS with Laboratories
Message-ID: <3676@pdn.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jul 88 11:59:06 GMT
References: <1018@ndsuvax.UUCP> <82400008@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <3646@pdn.UUCP> <2726@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Paradyne Corporation,   Largo FL
Lines: 23

In article <2726@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) writes:
> reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach) wrote: 
> ->Undergrads do not need to be working with the leading
> ->edge technology.  They just need available computing resources to meet their
> ->needs.
> 
> Think about this, though: what are their needs, and what are they
> being taught?  Are you teaching students about current and future
> technology and methods with abacuses?


     Sorry, let me clarify that statement.  Non-CS students and CS students
early on in their studies do not require leading edge technologies.  For them
PCs will suffice their needs.  In the junior and senior level courses the
CS students will require better equipment or a better school :-)



-- 
George W. Leach					Paradyne Corporation
..!uunet!pdn!reggie				Mail stop LF-207
Phone: (813) 530-2376				P.O. Box 2826
NOTE: codas<--->pdn will be gone soon		Largo, FL  34649-2826