[Air-l] re: tech competence

elijah wright elw at stderr.org
Fri Jun 24 06:07:28 PDT 2005


> my Mac). There's probably plenty of UNIX around behind the scenes but 
> nothing the ordinary student would run across. I too wonder for how much 
> longer undergrads at universities will be exposed to it.

They're exposed to the web.  And the web runs on UNIX.  :-)

Along those same lines -- ever try to teach JavaScript to someone who's 
never done anything but point-and-click?  I have -- and it is painful in 
the extreme.

--elijah




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