[clug] Education options

[Alan Sanderson]

> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Alex Satrapa wrote:
>
>> On 20 Jan 2004, at 09:56, Mark Harrison wrote:
>>
>> > The course options so far seem to be:
>> > a) Spherion (Advanced diploma of business systems)
>>
>> IMHO, not worth the $15,000 *or* the piece of paper it's printed on.
>>
>> > b) TAFE (Diploma in IT - software development)
>>
>> Best bet right there.
>>
>> > c) UC (Graduate Diploma in IT - software engineering)
>>
>> Didn't you say you wanted to *avoid* Windows?
>
> They have one Linux lab.
>
>> > So, are there other options that I have missed?
>
> Software Engineering at ANU springs to mind[1]. They have lots of open
> source stuff happening[2], smart people, and an seeming obsession with
> Java[3].
>
> Cheers,
> Mikal
>
> 1: They're much more professional than UC. I've tutored at both, and
> studied at UC. ANU has weekly tutor meetings where the tutors are
> briefed  so they know whats happening, regular tutor training, and much
> better  course documentation.
>
> 2: At least one samba core developer is stuying there, the technical
> support people know their stuff, and there is some interesting research
> happening as well.
>
> 3: Nothing wrong with Java that is, I just think it isn't a good first
> language.

Better that than Eiffel I reckon. Personally I'd would of preffered their
first language to be C or C++.



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