From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.90.74.62] (helo=babel.hpcc.noaa.gov) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16lVuM-00037N-00 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:08:42 -0500 Received: from localhost (jwantz@localhost) by babel.hpcc.noaa.gov (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g2EE8e416976 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:08:40 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:08:39 -0500 (EST) From: To: Subject: Computer Science Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi Chris, I'm not going to get involved in the "bookshare wars', but since you were chastizing others on this list because most people use WINDOWS and not linux, I think its only fair to point out that your computer science department is very nonstandard. Though I am a meteorologist, not a computer science person, I know many computer science students in the past and the present. Teaching WINDOWS programming is very nonstandard. I would guess that at least 90 percent of the schools teach programming on a UNIX variant of some kind. In the past thre was a fair amount of people using VMS. However, a lot of beginning C and C++ classes did use Turbo/Borland. WINDOWS programming is much more difficult than UNIX programming, so I suppose you are to be congratulated for making it through such a tough curriculum. Jim Wantz