Written by Roger Pressman and has gone through 6 editions (that I'm aware of). It was first introduced in 1982, and I used it as a Senior during my undergrad - I have since used it repeatedly over the years as I've taught software engineering classes. 25yrs after graduating it is one of the books that I keep in my office.
I agree with previous posters that have said act as a dumb robot and follow the classes instructions exactly .
The simpilest example I can give you to use is the making of a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich. Bring loaf of bread, knife, jar of jelly, and a jar of peanut butter to class and ask the class for instructions on how to construct the sandwhich.
statements like 'put the peanut butter on the bread' would result in taking the jar of peanut butter and placing it physically on top of the loaf of bread. Similarly, the statement 'add the jelly' would mean moving the jar of jelly onto the pile you've created. Until the students understand that each (and every) step must be stated, they won't correctly grasp the concept of what programs do.
Blogosphere is known and acknowledged to present specific points of view. Newspapers have lost a lot of trust with readership because they have chosen to present the news that they want - rather than just reporting the facts. The blogosphere has rattled their cage considerably with all its opinions, and newspapers feel that they have to responds in kind.
When sources used are questionable (unnamed or fictitious), corrections don't occur on bad facts, people start to question the value of newspapers. The on-line versions are going to have to compete in the 24x7 world, and actually improve their standards of reporting if they want to compete with the blogosphere.
Being the owner of an original A1000, and then an A3000 (still functioning - dual booting AmigaOS 3.9 and Debian Sarge) - I was impressed with the technology. You can see what I have at:
I thought so much of it, that I bought enough shares to paper a good sized room - and lost it all:-(
I bought the book to understand what kind of cluster f**k management was. I would make the book required reading for any graduate level business management (MBA type) course so that they understand that bad management + good products still equals failure.
As a member of ACM's SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education), I read the interview very carefully. Yesterday's mail delivered the most recent proceeding - the 37th annual SIGCSE meeting, in which an article also addressed declining enrollments.
As a professional in the field, I too assumed that outsourcing, layoffs, and the bust in the dot-com bubble would have been the reason for declining enrollments. The article, based on a survey of 836 high school students in 9 high schools (7 California, 2 Arizona) proved otherwise.
The top three negative influences appear to be an aversion to sitting in front of acomputer all day, the fact that they are already sold on another major, and that they would like a more people-oriented major or occupation. (Taken from section 4.3 of Why Students with an Apparent Aptitude for Computer Science Don't Choose to Major in Computer Science written by L. Carter, Point Loma Nazarene University).
People equate Computer Science with Programming. CS is more than just programming. If all you're doing is programming, then it's easy to see that you can be outsourced. If on the other hand, you show what else Computer Scientists are involved in - robotics, algorithms for movie special effects, improving the quality of life for people with missing limbs and for people with speech impediments - interest might pick up again.
The author had five implications of the survey in order to improve undergraduate enrollements:
Offer multidisciplinary and corss-disciplinary programs
Fix computing science's image
Increase women's enrollment in CS
Train high school computing science teachers
Make CS courses fun
Having gotten my BS in Computer Science 23yrs ago, I can see that the curiculum must change - can't just be teaching programming. Need to look at the advances in computing - courses about hardware architectures, applications of computing (weather modeling, human genome, etc). Programming is dry, and not what I do all day - why should it be taught that way?
Chapter 3 of the book points to GE's Visualization ToolKit (VTK) as something that is both opensource and agile. GE partially funds the VTK - a software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization. While GE holds some patents on that are incorporated into VTK, there stance is "We don't sell VTK, we sell what we do with VTK."
VTK has also spawned off two other opensource projects, DART and Cmake.
Having done the traditional route (bricks and mortar) for my BS and my MS in Computer Science, I can say that attending class w/people gives you interactions you won't have on-line. Much easier for teaming/group projects/group study - if those are required. Also, I'll bet you get the "college student" experience - living on campus, football games, parties, etc.
Having said that, I got my PhD in Computer Science at an on-line University. It is regionally accredited because it has no residency requirement. Because of this, it is not viewed as "good" as other degrees. Had they had a residency requirement, I could never have completed the work as I have a full-time job and a family to provide for. This was a fact that I researched, understood, and was willing to accept. My employer was not willing to pay for the degree as there are local Universities here that I could have attended in person.
I will say that I worked harder on the courses that I took on-line and in writing my dissertation than I ever did during my undergrad/grad school days. The one thing I did miss was the ability to confer with other students to talk through some of the problems, but as a whole it was a great experience.
My ultimate goal is to teach CS - depends on how well the PhD is going to be received by traditional institutions.
What makes the claim even funnier is that SCO Openserver 5.0 was the first time that old SCO actually introduced ELF to its Operating Systems. It was the default, but you could use the a.out format if you wanted to create binaries that ran on SCO Openserver 3.x I can actually remember presentations on ELF as the future and how good it was when I attended SCO Forum in August of 1995.
SCO Openserver 5.0 came out in 1995 and was the last Intel Unix to move to that standard.
The September issue of Communications of the ACM is actually dedicated to this topic. The issue is entitled "Why CS students need math".
If you're a member of ACM (one of the major professional organizations for CS folks) you can download the articles from the digital library - if you've already done away with your hard copy. Most University libraries should have the journal available for checkout.
Having recently received my PhD in CS, I can tell you that if you're going to pursue an advanced degree - then the math is TRUELY necessary. While I was an undergrad, I never understood the requirement - but once I started working in the 'real' world, a lot of it made sense. I don't necessarily use it on a daily basis - but there are times when I say "yeah, that makes sense now"
Much more interesting (and IMHO appealing) pictures in this month's Maxim Online. See her pictoral .
She and the rest of the cast seemed excited and pumped in the SciFi channel's one-hour behind the scenes show
I got my first set of copies (7 different versions) a week ago. I tried looking on google and Symantec's web site to see if this was a virus. I ran strings against the binary, and it looked pretty good - but as a Linux ascii email ser, I didn't get to see the pretty screen until later. I tried to report it to Symantec, but they don't have a way to report a virus:-(
In the last 48 hours, I've received over 500+ copies of the virus, and have filled my/var file system:-(
No. The sentence parses differently than what I intended. I meant that my son was 4yrs old when I started. I'm still married and the kid is now almost 7yrs old.
Just finished my Ph.D. at an on-line University. As some have said, you get what you put into it. With this particular uni, there were no semesters, but you were given a time limit to finish all the required courses and final paper (dissertation in my case).
Some of the courses were easy, and related to my interests, others made me get out the Calculus and DiffEQ books from 20+ years ago when I went the formal route for my BS/MS.
While its true that there were no formal classes - the professors/tutors were available upon request, and there is an on-line chat capability for others taking the same course.
I busted my butt harder in this program than I had in the two previous ones where I was attending meat-space classes. Of course, this time I was working full-time with a wife and a 4yr old son (at the start).
My biggest complaint is that my employer would not reimburse me because their policy was if a local uni is available, they don't pay for distance learning.
If you are a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in the state of Texas, you can be held liable for any damages on a project. That was the reference to the 1937 project.
How many 'software' engineers in Texas are willing to put their reputations on the line (and stand up to civil lawsuits) if they have made a coding mistake??
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Watched the first two episodes, and the speed of the story was like watching paint dry. Caught pieces of eps 3 4 5 6, and the watched the final hour of ep 10. The plots of XFiles and Close Encounters did better explaining these same things.
As far as I was concerned, SciFi bought a name and spent WAY too much for what they received. They'd have been better off keeping 'B5:Crusades' running or funding the other Stryzinski (-5) series...
Since you're already a Rational customer, I would check into Rational preVue . Many years ago it had another name - and was a product from a company that Rational bought...
Interesting. But what makes my day is the ability to listen to Rush Limbaugh on the Internet. At least ClearChannel is using (and willing to use) alternative mediums.
Been reading and talking to some friends who worked on IBM's SOM product/project in the early 1990s. Seems that CLR is pretty much the same concept. SOM allowed for you to access objects (and their associated methods) from any programming language. Of course it never made it much past OS/2 - though PM Shell used it (I believe). Anyone used SOM think CLR is the same thing - yet again??
SOM 3.0 Readme
Having taught a two semester course combination of Software Design (1st semester) and Software Implementation (2nd semester), I used a bunch of different ways of motivating students. Everyone had to submit a resume by the second class period and then I used those to create teams of 4-5. Each team then had to design a solution for the same project during the semester. At the end, each member rated the other members and that was used to modify grades. Students who didn't pull their own weight could be 'fired' from groups and have to do the work by themselves.
In the second semester class, I tried to make sure that a) teams were the same; b) that they got the design from another group. Same rules as the first semester - people could be fired and then they were on their own. Only once in four years of teaching this way did I have to fire anyone from a group.
If I remember correctly, when the DEC/Intel fiasco occurred, the only way that the US govt allowed Intel to purchase parts of DEC was to guarantee that there would be a second source for manufacturing of the Alpha for 10 years. That meant that Intel's fabs (previously DECs) had to continue to produce the chip, and allow folks like Samsung to also build it. Wonder if the new agreement will alter that - and if so, will the US govt step in?
As a spouse of a CFS sufferer, I can tell you that it's quite real. I've seen her go from a nearly 4.0 undergrad (3.87 at graduation time) to bedridden without being able to concentrate on anything for more than 30 minutes at a time - in a span of 12 months. While I can agree that too many people hook onto the current 'fad' disease, there are also true sufferers.
What about those of us that use non-standard OSes that don't have Netscape, IE, or Opera?? The original goal of Web and HTML was to be platform neutral - now I'm being told that I need one of the approved browsers in order to sites. Its bad enough when I go to sites that tell me that since I'm not on a PC (defined as Windows/Mac) they won't display...
I'm a goodly portion of the way through my disertation using Framemaker on Linux. I wish there was some option getting a license file so that I could continue to function - but have zero support on problems. Since I won't be finishing by Dec 31st, my options are:
get another OS and purchase Framemaker
Try to redo the whole thing in StarOffice/KWord
Redo the whole thing in LyX
Options 2 and 3 are the most time consuming, but option 1 isn't viable as the money isn't there:-(
This is no more restrictive than the license for SCO OpenServer/UnixWare and Solaris. All are intended for home use, and the license is written as to not canabalize their business market.
What do they hope to gain? Anyhone that is running Alpha NT needs a new OS. Would Linux or *BSD do the same for less cost? Probably - the only advantage that I can imagine is that True64 was actually developed to run on Alpha.
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Written by Roger Pressman and has gone through 6 editions (that I'm aware of). It was first introduced in 1982, and I used it as a Senior during my undergrad - I have since used it repeatedly over the years as I've taught software engineering classes. 25yrs after graduating it is one of the books that I keep in my office.
The simpilest example I can give you to use is the making of a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich. Bring loaf of bread, knife, jar of jelly, and a jar of peanut butter to class and ask the class for instructions on how to construct the sandwhich.
statements like 'put the peanut butter on the bread' would result in taking the jar of peanut butter and placing it physically on top of the loaf of bread. Similarly, the statement 'add the jelly' would mean moving the jar of jelly onto the pile you've created. Until the students understand that each (and every) step must be stated, they won't correctly grasp the concept of what programs do.
Jerry
Blogosphere is known and acknowledged to present specific points of view. Newspapers have lost a lot of trust with readership because they have chosen to present the news that they want - rather than just reporting the facts. The blogosphere has rattled their cage considerably with all its opinions, and newspapers feel that they have to responds in kind.
When sources used are questionable (unnamed or fictitious), corrections don't occur on bad facts, people start to question the value of newspapers. The on-line versions are going to have to compete in the 24x7 world, and actually improve their standards of reporting if they want to compete with the blogosphere.
jerry
http://bellsouthpwp.net/h/e/heymanj/Amiga/Amiga.h
I thought so much of it, that I bought enough shares to paper a good sized room - and lost it all
I bought the book to understand what kind of cluster f**k management was. I would make the book required reading for any graduate level business management (MBA type) course so that they understand that bad management + good products still equals failure.
As a professional in the field, I too assumed that outsourcing, layoffs, and the bust in the dot-com bubble would have been the reason for declining enrollments. The article, based on a survey of 836 high school students in 9 high schools (7 California, 2 Arizona) proved otherwise.
The top three negative influences appear to be an aversion to sitting in front of acomputer all day, the fact that they are already sold on another major, and that they would like a more people-oriented major or occupation. (Taken from section 4.3 of Why Students with an Apparent Aptitude for Computer Science Don't Choose to Major in Computer Science written by L. Carter, Point Loma Nazarene University).
People equate Computer Science with Programming. CS is more than just programming. If all you're doing is programming, then it's easy to see that you can be outsourced. If on the other hand, you show what else Computer Scientists are involved in - robotics, algorithms for movie special effects, improving the quality of life for people with missing limbs and for people with speech impediments - interest might pick up again.
The author had five implications of the survey in order to improve undergraduate enrollements:
Having gotten my BS in Computer Science 23yrs ago, I can see that the curiculum must change - can't just be teaching programming. Need to look at the advances in computing - courses about hardware architectures, applications of computing (weather modeling, human genome, etc). Programming is dry, and not what I do all day - why should it be taught that way?
jerry
VTK has also spawned off two other opensource projects, DART and Cmake.
Having done the traditional route (bricks and mortar) for my BS and my MS in Computer Science, I can say that attending class w/people gives you interactions you won't have on-line. Much easier for teaming/group projects/group study - if those are required. Also, I'll bet you get the "college student" experience - living on campus, football games, parties, etc.
Having said that, I got my PhD in Computer Science at an on-line University. It is regionally accredited because it has no residency requirement. Because of this, it is not viewed as "good" as other degrees. Had they had a residency requirement, I could never have completed the work as I have a full-time job and a family to provide for. This was a fact that I researched, understood, and was willing to accept. My employer was not willing to pay for the degree as there are local Universities here that I could have attended in person.
I will say that I worked harder on the courses that I took on-line and in writing my dissertation than I ever did during my undergrad/grad school days. The one thing I did miss was the ability to confer with other students to talk through some of the problems, but as a whole it was a great experience.
My ultimate goal is to teach CS - depends on how well the PhD is going to be received by traditional institutions.
jerry
PhD CS 2002
Kennedy-Western University
SCO Openserver 5.0 came out in 1995 and was the last Intel Unix to move to that standard.
If you're a member of ACM (one of the major professional organizations for CS folks) you can download the articles from the digital library - if you've already done away with your hard copy. Most University libraries should have the journal available for checkout.
Having recently received my PhD in CS, I can tell you that if you're going to pursue an advanced degree - then the math is TRUELY necessary. While I was an undergrad, I never understood the requirement - but once I started working in the 'real' world, a lot of it made sense. I don't necessarily use it on a daily basis - but there are times when I say "yeah, that makes sense now"
Much more interesting (and IMHO appealing) pictures in this month's Maxim Online. See her pictoral . She and the rest of the cast seemed excited and pumped in the SciFi channel's one-hour behind the scenes show
I got my first set of copies (7 different versions) a week ago. I tried looking on google and Symantec's web site to see if this was a virus. I ran strings against the binary, and it looked pretty good - but as a Linux ascii email ser, I didn't get to see the pretty screen until later. I tried to report it to Symantec, but they don't have a way to report a virus :-(
/var file system :-(
In the last 48 hours, I've received over 500+ copies of the virus, and have filled my
No. The sentence parses differently than what
I intended. I meant that my son was 4yrs old
when I started. I'm still married and the kid
is now almost 7yrs old.
Just finished my Ph.D. at an on-line University. As some have said, you get what you put into it. With this particular uni, there were no semesters, but you were given a time limit to finish all the required courses and final paper (dissertation in my case).
Some of the courses were easy, and related to my interests, others made me get out the Calculus and DiffEQ books from 20+ years ago when I went the formal route for my BS/MS.
While its true that there were no formal classes - the professors/tutors were available upon request, and there is an on-line chat capability for others taking the same course.
I busted my butt harder in this program than I had in the two previous ones where I was attending meat-space classes. Of course, this time I was working full-time with a wife and a 4yr old son (at the start).
My biggest complaint is that my employer would not reimburse me because their policy was if a local uni is available, they don't pay for distance learning.
jerry
If you are a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in the state of Texas, you can be held liable for any damages on a project. That was the reference to the 1937 project.
How many 'software' engineers in Texas are willing to put their reputations on the line (and stand up to civil lawsuits) if they have made a coding mistake??
Watched the first two episodes, and the speed of the story was like watching paint dry. Caught pieces of eps 3 4 5 6, and the watched the final hour of ep 10. The plots of XFiles and Close
Encounters did better explaining these same things.
As far as I was concerned, SciFi bought a name and spent WAY too much for what they received. They'd have been better off keeping 'B5:Crusades' running or funding the other Stryzinski (-5) series...
Since you're already a Rational customer, I would check into Rational preVue . Many years ago it had another name - and was a product from a company that Rational bought...
Interesting. But what makes my day is the ability to listen to Rush Limbaugh on the Internet. At least ClearChannel is using (and willing to use) alternative mediums.
Been reading and talking to some friends who worked on IBM's SOM product/project in the early 1990s. Seems that CLR is pretty much the same concept. SOM allowed for you to access objects (and their associated methods) from any programming language. Of course it never made it much past OS/2 - though PM Shell used it (I believe). Anyone used SOM think CLR is the same thing - yet again??
SOM 3.0 Readme
Having taught a two semester course combination of Software Design (1st semester) and Software Implementation (2nd semester), I used a bunch of different ways of motivating students. Everyone had to submit a resume by the second class period and then I used those to create teams of 4-5. Each team then had to design a solution for the same project during the semester. At the end, each member rated the other members and that was used to modify grades. Students who didn't pull their own weight could be 'fired' from groups and have to do the work by themselves.
In the second semester class, I tried to make sure that a) teams were the same; b) that they got the design from another group. Same rules as the first semester - people could be fired and then they were on their own. Only once in four years of teaching this way did I have to fire anyone from a group.
If I remember correctly, when the DEC/Intel fiasco occurred, the only way that the US govt allowed Intel to purchase parts of DEC was to guarantee that there would be a second source for manufacturing of the Alpha for 10 years. That meant that Intel's fabs (previously DECs) had to continue to produce the chip, and allow folks like Samsung to also build it. Wonder if the new agreement will alter that - and if so, will the US govt step in?
As a spouse of a CFS sufferer, I can tell you that it's quite real. I've seen her go from a nearly 4.0 undergrad (3.87 at graduation time) to bedridden without being able to concentrate on anything for more than 30 minutes at a time - in a span of 12 months. While I can agree that too many people hook onto the current 'fad' disease, there are also true sufferers.
What about those of us that use non-standard OSes that don't have Netscape, IE, or Opera?? The original goal of Web and HTML was to be platform neutral - now I'm being told that I need one of the approved browsers in order to sites. Its bad enough when I go to sites that tell me that since I'm not on a PC (defined as Windows/Mac) they won't display ...
Options 2 and 3 are the most time consuming, but option 1 isn't viable as the money isn't there
This is no more restrictive than the license for
SCO OpenServer/UnixWare and Solaris. All are
intended for home use, and the license is written
as to not canabalize their business market.
What do they hope to gain? Anyhone that is running Alpha NT needs a new OS. Would Linux or
*BSD do the same for less cost? Probably - the
only advantage that I can imagine is that True64
was actually developed to run on Alpha.