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From: steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: microcomputers
Message-ID: <291@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 21:32:28 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 19 21:32:28 1987
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Summary: More than 2 (3?) students per workstation is inhumane.

In article <398@ndsuvax.UUCP>, ncmagel@ndsuvax.UUCP (ken magel) writes:
> who are computer science majors?  That is, should there be one micro for every
> ten students, every five students, every twenty students?  WHat would be an 

If you expect your students to learn computing science instead of the
pharmacology of stimulants there should be enough interractive workstations
to go around.  I have been through a CS program that used resource limits
to weed out the physically weak rather than a demanding curriculum to
weed out the intellectually weak.  You can tell what I think of that
strategy.

I guess it all depends on what you are trying to accomplish.  But as
a rule of thumb if more than half of the workstations are occupied
at 3:30 am some of your students won't be in top form in class tomorrow.

	Steve Nuchia
	{{soma,academ}!uhnix1,sun!housun}!nuchat!steve