Collaboration WAS: E-mail Privacy

[Tim Chown]

In <1991Jun12.214805.13737 at bellcore.bellcore.com> jona at iscp.Bellcore.COM (Jon Alperin) writes:

>You know....

> When I was a student, I felt this exact same way. If in the business world we 
>are so often called upon to work in a group setting, and many large scale 
>computer applications require the interactions and teamwork of many people
>(which includes the liberal re-use of code written by others) what makes
>the eductaional system continually work at the opposite goals. Is the real goal
>of the educational system to prepare students for PhD's in research, or to
>prepare them with the skills necessary to life a comfortable life?

But a degree is awarded on the basis of *your* skills at design/coding
and on *your* ability to interact in a group project, not somebody else's!
A good CS degree has management/teamwork skills built in (ours does,
quick plug ;-), but should still demand individual performance.

Tim
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