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Tell him to go someplace unpleasant, if you object that is!
The actual assignment makes absolutely no mention of the tainted Redmond word - you could run it from a punch card reader with Fortran code, so long as it works.
It's a symptom of the fast rate that technologies, especially programming advance - technologies such as VB and Access are simply out of date and outmoded. Many teachers just don't to have seemed to have been reconciled with the potential of open source for the simple reason that it basically was nonexistent for all intents and purposes when they did their qualifications.
What annoys me though is a few narrow minded instructors and teachers who impose there ingrained ways of using Access, often due to lack of expertise elsewhere purely because the course they attended had a lucrative software licensing deal.
Sadly, and to a large extent, education in the UK is still geared towards Microsoft - allegedly the Edexcel board won't touch anything not done in VB.NET. Thank God for AQA!
Maybe there'll be LCPs on offer soon in this country?
I'd be interested to know what you all think.
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