Re: Class Ideas Needed

Gil Jaysmith wrote: > < lots of good stuff ending with: > > Anything non-language-specific but which mentions one or two generic > languages on the way. I'd rather have someone who understands _why_ C > works than someone who understands how it works. Which reminds me of the best IT employment recommendation I've ever heard: employ people who did Latin at school. If you can learn a highly structured and dead language (one that you can't just 'wing it' in) you've probably got the right kind of brain for IT. From past experience I'd also recommend (a) people who like playing with numbers for no apparent purpose and (b) (old but true) people who don't seem to give a s*** for convention. Neither of which can be taught. The only good training course is short, thorough and intensive, and takes the form of working through a manual which you then get to take away. If you've got time to get bored you probably won't learn much. -- Phil Edwards phil@news400.com Editor, NEWS/400.UK +44 (0)161 929 0777