From: Lloyd Zusman Date: 2002-12-28T00:58:18+09:00 Subject: Re: 1210 / 100 = 12? what? Dossy writes: > 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. How long ago was that? >> 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. So true. And there's a mountain of "how to" books out there these days which never mention these basics, which many of today's "professionals" have used to "learn" their "skill". > 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. :-) Yeah, me too. They say that the memory is the second thing to go. Question: "But what's the first thing?" Answer: "I forgot." > -- 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) > -- Lloyd Zusman ljz@asfast.com