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Is Microsoft cool to students?

Posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 3:54 PM by Daryll McDade
Apparently not. The Saturday after PDC some of my colleagues on the Academic team met with a group students to discuss “digital lifestyle”. Chris Avis was there and took some good notes. A couple of things strike me about this; 1) Windows Read More...
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More bad news for Computer Science

Posted Monday, April 25, 2005 10:59 AM by Daryll McDade
It's really disturbing to me to continue to see stats like those in this article. Where will the next generation of software professionals come from? What needs to be done to get these levels to where they were in 1999? Read More...
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Can Johnny still program?

Posted Thursday, April 21, 2005 11:08 AM by Daryll McDade
Saw this article on CNET from David Patterson(President on ACM) about the showing of the US entries in the ACM student coding competition. <rant> IMO, this problem starts with high school. I have visited a TON of US high schools since starting in Read More...
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