Date   : Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:12:57 +0200
From   : Anders Carlsson <anders.carlsson@...>
Subject: Re: Basic & BBC Basic

On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Mark Usher wrote:

> If an employer sees BBC BASIC on a CV it won't cut any ice, if he
> sees HTML, VBA then he will be aware immediately that the person
> has a knowledge of MS Office and the internet. Exactly the sort
> of things they are looking for.

If we're talking about hiring a software engineer, neither BBC Basic
(even in its most recent form) nor VBA or HTML would cut much ice.

We should make a difference between teaching kids (10-14) the basics
of how a computer can be told to do different things and teaching a
bit older students (15-19) different methods of programming. For the
young, a modern BBC Basic may be adequate (in particular if they can
get a license to use it at home too) to introduce them to programming.
For the high school and older students, something closer to what
really is used out there - various OO languages and whatsmore -
may be more fitting.

No matter what, I doubt school projects will count much on a CV,
even if they were modelled in UML and implemented with .NET or J2EE.

Andy Armstrong wrote:

> There's no database in OO.

I got the impression there is a database component in OpenOffice 2?

-- 
Anders Carlsson