<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Yeah, I'd vote more for the how to get hired, especially 'cause I'm<br>writing a book, and I'd love to hear their thoughts about the things
<br>I tell them....</blockquote><div><br> It's easy to convince my students how easy and cool Perl is in comparison to C or C++ for writing programs in their upper-level classes where the professor doesn't mind what language the solution is in. I've actually had semesters where students help steer the pace and content of the class because they want me to cover material that they
<span style="font-weight: bold;">know</span> will help them solve some final projects in classes. :) Those are fun semesters.<br><br> It's harder to convince them that there's money to be made if you're not writing PHP, Ruby on Rails or developing the latest-greatest AJAX/Web
2.0 where-should-we-have-lunch-today randomizer. Perhaps I'll go to the coffers and see if the university has any bring-a-cool-speaker-in cash laying around. :)<br><br> -- b<br></div><br></div>