Google Blogger: Vietnamese HS Students Excelling At CS 291
An anonymous reader writes "A Google engineer visiting Vietnam discovered a large portion of Vietnamese high school students might be able to pass a Google interview. According to TFA (and his blog), students start learning computing as early as grade 2. According to the blogger and another senior engineer, about half of the students in an 11th grade class he visited would be able to make through their interview process. The blogger also mentioned U.S. school boards blocking computer science education. The link he posted backing up his claim goes to a Maryland Public Schools website describing No Child Left Behind technicalities. According to the link, computer science is not considered a core subject. While the blogger provided no substantial evidence of U.S. school boards blocking computer science education, he claimed that students at Galileo Academy had difficulty with the HTML image tag. According to the school's Wikipedia page, by California standards, Galileo seems to be one of the state's better secondary schools."
Old Aussie joke (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Laughing at the Vietnamese ? (Score:4, Funny)
Did you seriously just admit to owning a cat stroller, while at the same time ridiculing a dog owner for giving their pet a jacket? ...and THEN say your pet is better?
Someone... please, take care of the riff-raff.
Re:Not blocking, just ignoring (Score:4, Funny)
blue collar workers turn squiggles on paper into skyscrapers
So basically, you're saying that architects are like hackers, blueprints are like programs, and blue collars are like trusty, reliable, slightly dull transistors? Well, I think many hackers here *do* have respect for transistor technology, but that's probably not the kind of respect one wishes if one, in fact, *isn't* an uneducated redneck.
The stockbrokers...that would be parasitic capacitances with leak currents?