[dundee] NoHelpDesk (Doug)

[Lee Hughes]

Help Desk, only the lowest of the low work on the help desk.

So, I'll do it!!!! In fact my laptop clinics are always popular. ;-).

I was listening to this on my way back to dundee last night,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radioscotland_aod.shtml?scotland/feature2_tue

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The University Challenge
50 per cent of today's school leavers are encouraged to go to college or university, what's it all for? And who's it for? Bill Whiteford investigates.
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it's interesting, explores the state of degree is scoltand, Abertay is mentioned
for churning out games programmers. 

I think this touches on some of the 'views' expressed in this thread.

Have a listen.. bbc Iplayer does seem to work on linux mint! Thank god!

see you all tomorrow.

Laters,
Lee






Doug Aitken <doug.a7 at gmail.com> wrote:  Thanks Jen, I'll try to head along for a bit of that.
  
 I agree with Mark, I only started H Computing but I know a fair few who did it and they said it never went past COMAL. 
  
  
  

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You seem to be implying that all Higher Computing students would know a fair
bit about programming concepts, networking, and a bunch of other things.
I've got to say that's just wrong. My Higher Computing class focussed on 
COMAL, the networking was entirely conceptual (no interaction with actual
networks) and everything was running on systems about 10 years out of date.
Not all schools have access to the resources to teach Computing courses 
worth a damn, and assuming certain things of them would raise the bar above
a bunch of people, who - despite best efforts to the contrary - can find
that the schooling system is incapable of teaching what's relevant. 
As for 'Anyone with a mild interest in networking' knowing about Perl, AD,
and Linux ... that's just silly.  
  
 How about we poster the Uni with an "alternative" help desk? and if asked what we are doing, we could say we were alleviating the work load on the Uni help desk. 
 
D

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