Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Monday, September 6
Worth sharing: Academic inflation: Higher education | The Economist
Rising education costs are not matched by rising wages. Hrmm.
Tuesday, February 19
Microsoft To Give Students Dev Software For Free
Microsoft To Give Students Dev Software For Free
Why weren't they doing this when I was a poor 18YO freshman?
Sure, they had "academic" rates -- but $40 or $60, even for a piece of $300+ software, is still a big chunk of change for someone unemployed, or underemployed.
As a primarily Microsoft developer, I think this is great for students.
Is it Microsoft making further efforts at marketing to students? No doubt about it. I still think it's a good thing for students -- run Linux, run Windows, get to know Eclipse, get to know Visual Studio, get to know MySQL, get to know Oracle, get to know SQL Server, get to know whatever you get your hands on, because in software engineering, experience is your true education.
Why weren't they doing this when I was a poor 18YO freshman?
Sure, they had "academic" rates -- but $40 or $60, even for a piece of $300+ software, is still a big chunk of change for someone unemployed, or underemployed.
As a primarily Microsoft developer, I think this is great for students.
Is it Microsoft making further efforts at marketing to students? No doubt about it. I still think it's a good thing for students -- run Linux, run Windows, get to know Eclipse, get to know Visual Studio, get to know MySQL, get to know Oracle, get to know SQL Server, get to know whatever you get your hands on, because in software engineering, experience is your true education.
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