Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> My God... this is genius. Genius, I say! 0_0
>>
>> Oh come on, pull the other one.
> 
> Who said ideas have to be complex to be revolutionary? E = mc^2
> 
>> I am not really surprised :( IMHO it should have been a recurring 
>> theme in your CS education. The fact that it wasn't confirms any 
>> prejudice that they still mainly teach technical subjects but fail to 
>> teach what *programming* is about.
> 
> Oh, sure, he had lessons about how to write reports. It just didn't make 
> a lot of sense to me. (Why would you tell somebody something thrice? 
That is the second time you mention that. I don't think I ever did that. 
Besides we are often required to tell about our research within 10 
minutes. Telling the audience once is already difficult enough.
> That makes no sense.) Well OK, some of it made sense. (Like, write it 
> for the correct target audience.)
My guess would be that this teacher couldn't write a decent report 
himself. And boy did he miss all those opportunities to discuss 'divide 
and conquer' in the context of writing reports, and all those strategies 
to start writing something like 'bottom up', 'top down' etc, etc. Not 
even being able to use a flowchart to analyse why a report was good or 
not. Pity.

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