[fsug-bangalore] Gnu/Linux in schools (was Knock knock.)

[Rakesh 'arky' Ambati]

Hi Friends,

   Forgive me for top posting, please try to use a
fresh title for new topics.

--arky 


--- Sajith T S <sajithts at softhome.net> wrote:
> Ramanraj K wrote:
> 
> > At I Std, a Text Book is issued for `Computer
> Science'.  The chapters 
> > are: 1. Introduction 2. Hello Computers 3. Parts
> of a Computer 4. Uses 
> > of Computer 5. Computers at Work 6. Type with
> Notepad [ms] 7. Let's 
> > Paint [with ms]  Chapters 1 to 5 are vendor
> neutral, but with chapter 6, 
> > liberal screen shots introduce ms to kids.  From
> now on, CS is like any 
> > other subject - Q&A and Tests based on the Text
> Book become part of the 
> > curriculum.
> 
> Which reminds of...
> 
> 	Computer Science is no more about computers than
> astronomy is
> 	about telescopes. (attributed to Edsger Dijkstra.)
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science
> 
> Dijkstra is the man who called Software Engineering
> folks charlatans and
> quacks :) I don't remember which paper is that, but
> this manuscript has
> some "extreme" insight:
> 
>
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1305.PDF
> 
> Sajith.
> -- 
> Your friends will know you better in the first
> moment you meet than
> your acquaintances will know you in a lifetime.
>                     -- Richard Bach, "Illusions"
> 
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