From: Dossy Date: 2002-12-28T00:51:51+09:00 Subject: Re: 1210 / 100 = 12? what? On 2002.12.28, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > > Do they even teach these basics any more? They do, in some schools. Hell, I learned this stuff when I studied Computer Science in /high school/. Seeing it again in college was a boring repeat, but they at least taught it. > I'm not trying to disparage anyone here; if something hasn't been > taught, then no one can be expected to have learned it. > > But it's disturbing to me to see the number of people who are posting in > this and other newsgroups in recent years who haven't been exposed to > the concepts of fixed-point and floating-point arithmetic. This > indicates to me that there are many schools these days which don't make > the effort to teach these basic concepts to their computer science > students. The fault is with these schools, and that's sad. What's sad is that many computer "professionals" are "self-taught" and they didn't bother to teach themselves the fundamental basics, and have no idea how much of a pretty vast body of knowledge they're missing. My excuse? My brain runs a pretty aggressive garbage collector. I get to truthfully say that I've forgotten more than some folks have ever learned. :-) -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy@panoptic.com Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)