I don't think that is random sample. All the colleges in Southern state of Tamilnadu come under Anna University and most of the colleges (about 15 - 20) I have had a chance to visit and interact with - they were using Turbo C! Unless the student has good exposure or he/she take it upon to learn, they will not be employable.
The mere fact that the instructor has a schedule put up and sticks to it makes it better than any lab session I had.
Oh, and it's not just something I alone experienced, so writing it off as a "random sample" makes no sense. This is /the/ situation with most colleges here. Which is kinda the entire point of the article.
> The mere fact that the instructor has a schedule put up and sticks to it makes it better than any lab session I had.
You seem to be impressed by the oddest things! FWIW, our labs adhered to a schedule too. Engineering colleges in India fall on some range within the spectrum. You seem to have studied at one of the poorer ones. k4rtik, below, seems to have studied at one of the better ones.
When I made judgements, I made it on the basis of the output of Indian and western colleagues. Compiler versions are a non-issue for me. µA741, though outdated, taught me well enough.
Some pedantry: It was an anecdote. A random sample is multiple data points drawn randomly from a population. GP only provided one, and you suspected it might be an outlier.
Not quite. I meant that my the course description that I provided was a random sampling. I googled for EE programs, picked a university randomly, went to its list of courses, and picked a course randomly.
Haha.. am still tempted to say that still doesn't ensure a random distribution as it's a lot more likely you picked a link from the first few pages for search results. :P. Either way, your point is valid.
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This is a random sample. How different was your lab session compared to http://engr.case.edu/merat_francis/eecs245/EECS%20245%20Syll... ?
I don't think that is random sample. All the colleges in Southern state of Tamilnadu come under Anna University and most of the colleges (about 15 - 20) I have had a chance to visit and interact with - they were using Turbo C! Unless the student has good exposure or he/she take it upon to learn, they will not be employable.
The mere fact that the instructor has a schedule put up and sticks to it makes it better than any lab session I had.
Oh, and it's not just something I alone experienced, so writing it off as a "random sample" makes no sense. This is /the/ situation with most colleges here. Which is kinda the entire point of the article.
> The mere fact that the instructor has a schedule put up and sticks to it makes it better than any lab session I had.
You seem to be impressed by the oddest things! FWIW, our labs adhered to a schedule too. Engineering colleges in India fall on some range within the spectrum. You seem to have studied at one of the poorer ones. k4rtik, below, seems to have studied at one of the better ones.
When I made judgements, I made it on the basis of the output of Indian and western colleagues. Compiler versions are a non-issue for me. µA741, though outdated, taught me well enough.
> This is a random sample.
Some pedantry: It was an anecdote. A random sample is multiple data points drawn randomly from a population. GP only provided one, and you suspected it might be an outlier.
Not quite. I meant that my the course description that I provided was a random sampling. I googled for EE programs, picked a university randomly, went to its list of courses, and picked a course randomly.
Haha.. am still tempted to say that still doesn't ensure a random distribution as it's a lot more likely you picked a link from the first few pages for search results. :P. Either way, your point is valid.