I live in Austin TX, and I go to school at one of the schools in AISD, which is the district he is talking about. It's true: there are a lot of schools where the district's people are incompetent, and most kids there don't know how to turn a computer on, much less fix them. But at my school, LBJ HS, we actually have a club devoted to fixing computers and maintaining our network, which we call STAC. Yeah, we're a bunch of high school students, but we ARE able to keep our own network up and running. Most of us are fairly avid/. readers too.:)
I do a fair amount of C++ coding (the CS classes in high school are HORRIBLE), even at a science and math academy, and I'd say that a LOT of time is spent debugging. But it's work too. Let's see those whining end users say it isn't work when the programs they use crash because nobody did any debugging.:)
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I remember hearing that NIST did that shortly before Y2K.
It's from the book Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Great book, go read it.
If you had announced this AT MacHack, you would have been greeted with cries of "Marketing!"
I love MacHack because it's usually got a number of great speakers. Last year we had Woz and the entire original Mac development team.
Wolf 359 is a real star, the third-closest to Earth, as you can see if you go here.
... was Richie Rich. Yeah, the one with Macaulay Culkin.
*shudder*
God that movie sucked.
I live in Austin TX, and I go to school at one of the schools in AISD, which is the district he is talking about. It's true: there are a lot of schools where the district's people are incompetent, and most kids there don't know how to turn a computer on, much less fix them. But at my school, LBJ HS, we actually have a club devoted to fixing computers and maintaining our network, which we call STAC. Yeah, we're a bunch of high school students, but we ARE able to keep our own network up and running. Most of us are fairly avid /. readers too. :)
I do a fair amount of C++ coding (the CS classes in high school are HORRIBLE), even at a science and math academy, and I'd say that a LOT of time is spent debugging. But it's work too. Let's see those whining end users say it isn't work when the programs they use crash because nobody did any debugging. :)