The USA gained its independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain - basically a former existence of the current United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
They could have at least found out the answer to their own question before deciding if people were right or wrong.
As an example one of the Informatics [www.inf.ed.ac.uk] buildings at the University of Edinburgh burned down [wikipedia.org] in December 2002. The building to replace the one lost is only just starting construction now. This was hurried up a little as there were already plans for a new building which were fast tracked after the fire. Added problems were that the original site has world heritage status, building work there hasn't even finished the planning stage.
Luckly all the data was backed up off site, but the AI library was totally lost. The University of Edinburgh is still feeling the consequences and I suspect Southampton will be years later as well.
Whenever I use LaTeX in windows I just use cygwin to run it. Easy, I can edit the files using any text editer I like (usually crimson) and then run the commands in cygwin, that way I can also easily use divps and ps2pdf.
I guess it's kind of cheating but it really is the best of both worlds.:)
Don't get me wrong I also run linux, mainly for development and as a server, but for day to day stuff and games I stick with windows.
Aye, but we speak 'scots'. Although whether or not we were taught that in school is another matter. I'm not a big fan of written scots, but a big fan of it spoken.
I don't think starting with Java is a problem. I started university learning Java (I already knew basic and a little C) and the problems with buffer overflows, instruction sets etc was presented to us well. Coming from programing with JVM actually helped me to understand better the principles of memory management by compairing the Java approach to straight up C programming. I think rather than Java being the problem, the problem is courses teaching how to code in Java rather than teaching Java, I'm sure there's a lot of 'Java Programers' out there who don't understand exactly what the JVM is doing or even understand what bytecode is.
I've just graduated from a CS course over here in the UK and it seems like all the problems you are picking up on are not problems over here. The first and second years of the course were based around learning Java as an example of a programing language ; general programing techniques, object orientated concepts as well as Java specific stuff. As well as this first and second year covered more general CS stuff ranging from basic processor design to language theory. Third and Fourth year then allowed each student to pick the subjects which interested them, most students choosing a mix of hardware (low level logic, processor design, memory design etc), software subjects, more theoretical CS courses (ie functional programing, language sematics), operating systems and compilers.
I was lucky enough to go to a very good university for informatics so it maybe isn't like that across the board, but courses like you describe certainly exist.
I live in America, but I recently visited a friend in the UK. I was surprised at first, when I realized that there was not a £1 bill. After using the currency for just a day, though, I saw the benefit to the system. Coins are much more durable than bills, and the £1 coin is a hefty thing that's almost fun to carry.
We do have a £1 note, just not in England, Wales or NI:D There's also a £5 coin which is made every now and then for special occasions, but it's HUGE and no-one ever uses them, it's probably the same sort of idea as the $2 note.
The smallest paper note we have now is £5, which is about $9.50
Unless you are in Scotland of course, where we still have £1 notes, although they are, like all Scottish bank notes not technically legal tender.
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The USA gained its independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain - basically a former existence of the current United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. They could have at least found out the answer to their own question before deciding if people were right or wrong.
Those who can't teach, teach Geography.
Well, that's what I heard anyway...
Luckly all the data was backed up off site, but the AI library was totally lost. The University of Edinburgh is still feeling the consequences and I suspect Southampton will be years later as well.
Whenever I use LaTeX in windows I just use cygwin to run it. Easy, I can edit the files using any text editer I like (usually crimson) and then run the commands in cygwin, that way I can also easily use divps and ps2pdf.
:)
I guess it's kind of cheating but it really is the best of both worlds.
Don't get me wrong I also run linux, mainly for development and as a server, but for day to day stuff and games I stick with windows.
"Punter" is slang for a gambler, sometimes used when talking about a customer.
Aye, but we speak 'scots'. Although whether or not we were taught that in school is another matter. I'm not a big fan of written scots, but a big fan of it spoken.
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I don't think starting with Java is a problem. I started university learning Java (I already knew basic and a little C) and the problems with buffer overflows, instruction sets etc was presented to us well. Coming from programing with JVM actually helped me to understand better the principles of memory management by compairing the Java approach to straight up C programming. I think rather than Java being the problem, the problem is courses teaching how to code in Java rather than teaching Java, I'm sure there's a lot of 'Java Programers' out there who don't understand exactly what the JVM is doing or even understand what bytecode is.
I've just graduated from a CS course over here in the UK and it seems like all the problems you are picking up on are not problems over here. The first and second years of the course were based around learning Java as an example of a programing language ; general programing techniques, object orientated concepts as well as Java specific stuff. As well as this first and second year covered more general CS stuff ranging from basic processor design to language theory. Third and Fourth year then allowed each student to pick the subjects which interested them, most students choosing a mix of hardware (low level logic, processor design, memory design etc), software subjects, more theoretical CS courses (ie functional programing, language sematics), operating systems and compilers. I was lucky enough to go to a very good university for informatics so it maybe isn't like that across the board, but courses like you describe certainly exist.
I live in America, but I recently visited a friend in the UK. I was surprised at first, when I realized that there was not a £1 bill. After using the currency for just a day, though, I saw the benefit to the system. Coins are much more durable than bills, and the £1 coin is a hefty thing that's almost fun to carry. We do have a £1 note, just not in England, Wales or NI :D There's also a £5 coin which is made every now and then for special occasions, but it's HUGE and no-one ever uses them, it's probably the same sort of idea as the $2 note.
The smallest paper note we have now is £5, which is about $9.50 Unless you are in Scotland of course, where we still have £1 notes, although they are, like all Scottish bank notes not technically legal tender.