[Coco] dumb profs wasRe: trig.h

[Willard Goosey]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 07:07:16AM -0500, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> As I said, it has begotten 50MB binaries that require 1GB of memory to run 
> and execute like a snail even at that.  Before being turned loose on the 
> world to code The Next Big App, all new CS grads should be exposed to 
> something like, e.g. WordStar running on a 48k Z80 machine and asked to 
> think about it for a moment.

Heh.  Yeah, they should have to do some fairly large (for the machine)
project on a CP/M or FLEX or OS-9 box, just to show them how to do it
right.

CS students should also be given a project that involves some old code
(maybe their own, from a previous class?) where they're handed the
code and told, "There's a bug in this!  Fix it by tomorrow!"

Willard
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