Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!xylogics!world!madd
From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Assembler and teaching Software engineering
Message-ID: <1990Mar17.131246.6839@world.std.com>
Date: 17 Mar 90 13:12:46 GMT
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Organization: Saber Software
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peterd@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch) writes:
>There exist any number of companies that
>promise to make you a "Systems Analyst/Programmer in only
>three short months!" (So is that February, April and June? :-)
>Presumably there is a reason university degrees take a
>little longer?

Red tape? ;-)

Seriously, I've wondered what must be on the minds of the people that
pay for those courses.  How can you become a competitive programmer --
starting from scratch with no previous experience -- in seven weeks?
I just don't see it happening, even though the ads around here claim
better than 90% placement.

jim frost
saber software
jimf@saber.com