[ILUG] where are the Irish "Summer of Code" entrants?

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, John Madden wrote:

> The course leans more towards networking, yet there was only one 
> module where we did practical networking stuff (ie. messing with 
> routers etc.). This was only for one semester in final year, and 
> the labs were more of a beginners CLI than anything to do with the 
> routers themselves.

I'm puzzled, why would you think learning a router CLI intimately 
should be part of a CS/CA degree course?

You should be learning about distance vectors and Dijkstra's SPF 
algorithm (and some of the other shortest-path algorithms) and 
optimal ways to implement such algorithms. (and other practical 
applications of graph theory).

That kind of knowledge will last you a lifetime, whereas learning 
some vendor's router CLI likely would be dated even by the time you 
graduate. Knowledge I'd go back to university to pick up...

(Incidentally, I wouldn't try study computing in Ireland - the level 
of most of them seems to vary, Trinity's /day/ CS course excepted, 
whose syllabus at least seems interesting. The Trinity evening time 
CS course unfortunately is completely watered down - seems all too 
common with evening time courses :( ).

regards,
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