Curriculum issues in Computer 'Science' courses
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You posted that in the wrong thread, idiot. I'm going to walk 20 feet over to you and smack you upside the head.
Anyway, that doesn't tell me anything about PowerShell failing to treat non-text data as non-text data. That just tells me that PowerShell is capable of converting non-text data into text-data, and some idiots do that inappropriately.
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You wanted an explanation; I gave you one. I'm just trying to
encourageaccelerate the degeneration of your neural pathways.
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Attempting to handle all students the same just doesn't work.
That's a problem with mixed-ability classes, and other subjects have the same challenges. They deal with it by not mixing everyone together, and instead only letting people above a certain level of talent take a course (which with a diversity of schools means that you get reasonably good stratification).
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It is like starting off in microbiology with a lab course on using microscopes and petri dishes before explaining what bacteria and protozoa are.
Having been in said major, that is exactly what half the microbiology course is - a lab course that deals with (among other things) using microscopes, Petri dishes, etc.. The lab portion of the course generally starts the same week as the lecture portion, and in the beginning focuses on things like how to use a microscope, how to prepare a slide, how to inoculate a Petri dish, etc. The base level of knowledge (what are bacteria or protozoa in general?) you're referring to is expected to come from general knowledge courses (in this case, biology), and even that's not really necessary since it gets explained all over again anyway.
So not really the best example, there.
