[dundee] NoHelpDesk

[gordon dunlop]

This is the fault of the way that the modules are designed in Abertay,
at MSc level you do Oracle which is platform independent (I had it on
SuSE Linux) and it also teaches the proper Structured Query Level
Language, the Director of the Course is Petra Leimich, one of your
fellow Germans who is also a great mathematician, but as an
undergraduate you can maybe be fed some shit and maybe given
inappropriate studies , ie access. There is an IT trade off here and
that depends on the quality of students, Structured Query Language
might put some students out of their depth where Database Design is
not the primus operandus of the course, so what do you want to learn -
ethical hacking? or database design? What is the most important to
students? Access can be learned quite quickly as a no-brainer, SQL is
something different. I will let it remain here but whatever you think
feedback must be given to course leaders if things are to be changed.

gordon

On Jan 14, 2008 11:34 PM, Tim Spencer <samurai.mit at gmail.com> wrote:
> they shouldn't feed students bullshit (pardon my french) i.e. database
> design using access.
>
> tim
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