While I agree that some sort of true software project is a distinct and necessary part of a computer science education. My school actually has a project course over the course of two semesters that attempts to do that. The problem is that the courses leading up to the project do not prepare you for it. It's as if there is the effort to teach technical writing, project management, the software development and then also have a major project completed.
Don't get me wrong, I think the idea is fantastic and is needed. However, there needs to be a base to build on instead of giving students below average grades for something that they have no idea how to do and then responding to criticism by simply saying "well that's how it's done in the real world". Sorry, when was I supposed to learn that? I was in the 'real' world developing software when?
This has stopped it for me, prevents plugins from causing pop-ups or pop-unders
go to about:config
right click and add a new integer value
type privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins in the box
then give it a value of 2
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According to this CNN article, the initiative appears to already have been approved by DHS.
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"The pilot project, signed into law by Gov. Chris Gregoire and formally approved by (DHS Secretary) Chertoff on Friday"
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/03/24/border.cross
While I agree that some sort of true software project is a distinct and necessary part of a computer science education. My school actually has a project course over the course of two semesters that attempts to do that. The problem is that the courses leading up to the project do not prepare you for it. It's as if there is the effort to teach technical writing, project management, the software development and then also have a major project completed. Don't get me wrong, I think the idea is fantastic and is needed. However, there needs to be a base to build on instead of giving students below average grades for something that they have no idea how to do and then responding to criticism by simply saying "well that's how it's done in the real world". Sorry, when was I supposed to learn that? I was in the 'real' world developing software when?
This has stopped it for me, prevents plugins from causing pop-ups or pop-unders go to about:config right click and add a new integer value type privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins in the box then give it a value of 2