I wish they'd teach Linux in school, starting from the kernel, instead of this "how to use MS Office" tripe that passes for "computer science" here in the states.
Subject: Assignment 1 - Larry Jones - Romeo and Juliet Meets Robots
Body: [5 paragraphs of text]
Or even better would be for them to have it on a blog, so you get social pressure to do well. Parents might not go for that one though.
Why do we need to be good at margins, double spacing, etc. When was the last time I needed to change the margins on a Word doc? 3 months ago? Waste of time/resources.
They do. Schools are really backwards on this sort of thing.
I have gripes about my CS education but this seems overly hyperbolic. Or, where did you go to school?
(As a side note, I self-studied AP Computer Science and it isn't much better. Its pretty much all Java syntax and logic with a few sorting algorithms thrown in so that they can call it "computer science").