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From: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: introductory language
Message-ID: <1460@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
Date: 11 Apr 90 04:05:09 GMT
References: <7300008@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <960021@hpcll14.HP.COM> <257@puma.ge.com> <259@puma.ge.com>
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In article <259@puma.ge.com> jnixon@andrew.ATL.GE.COM (John F Nixon) writes:

>One, if this is
>really an introductory course, why do the students think that is all that
>is required to obtain a job?

Job offers.

>Name one other field of study where people get
>jobs after an introductory course.

Accounting.  There are probably others, too.

>Two, why do the employers think this
>way!?

Because it's cheaper to hire 10 programmers at $30,000 each who can't
get a job done -- who will never get it finished properly -- than to
hire 1 at $75,000 who can do it in 6 months.
It is cheaper, isn't it?                (:-S sarcasm)
That's how most employers are managed.  (no sarcasm in this line)

-- 
Norman Diamond, Nihon DEC     diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com
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