[thelist] Trainers Focus

[Daniel McMurray]

It's been my experience that one really can't teach the design issues
without first teaching the code.  To expand on your metaphor, you can
learn about traffic rules until you're sick, but what good is it if you
still can't drive?  Perhaps a healthy mix of the code/the "real world
application" is what's necessary, but I wouldn't try to teach application
until the students have a strong foundation in the code so they can
understand the application better.

Just a couple of cents...

Dan

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, WapIndia wrote:

> when people are being trained in an area, say HTML... what is it that needs
> to be taught?  Apart from the subject matter which is tags, image embedding,
> tables, forms, etc. etc., one needs to know about the environment.  For e.g.
> usability, typography, color schemes, conventions, and so on.
> 
> the current scenario, at least in india, is akin to a learning to drive a
> car, but not learning about traffic rules.
> 
> For programming, especially 2- or 3- tier systems, people just learn
> "trivialised" applications, and do not have the "enterprise" view.  They
> have no idea of scalability issues.
> 
> i think evolting on this issue can result in better quality of inflow.  the
> training/certification areas need to be more rigourous with their
> participants.
> 
> regards
> 
> kinjal
> 
> 
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