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Re: JAVA Training Update

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Douglas Thomas)
Wed Sep 6 19:23:21 1995

Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 16:36:11 -0400
From: dthomas@engr.soltech.com (Douglas Thomas)
To: java-interest@java.sun.com

 
> >From: Anderson_B.
> >How about some virtual training made available on the net from slides ...
> 
> How about exercises?  Raw information is lovely, especially if it is
> organized to suit the needs of a "student."  But exercises provide
> the feedback that says either "yes, move on" or "hmmm, better
> rethink that."   Incrementally learning the Java
> syntax and class library could be done very efficiently and
> effectively over the net through textual content followed by
> (automatically "gradable") programming assignments.
> 
> (If you want to teach 100,000 programmers Java, I think that's
> the way.)
> 
>  -- Rick Fleischer


i've always felt that the web was the best medium to conduct computer-based 
training (cbt), yet BIG companies continue to ship training material in 
cdrom format.  makes no sense to me.
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