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Re: How our young colleagues are being educated....
From: Ken Chase <math () sizone org>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 15:31:52 -0500
Learning how to do CIDR math is a major core component of the coursework? Im thinking that this is about a 30 minute module in the material, once you know binary, powers of 2 and some addition and subtraction (all of which is taught in most schools by when, first year highschool?) you should be done with it. Why is CIDR such an important coursework component? Or is it just a shibboleth to filter out people who cant do simple gradeschool math in their heads or just memorize the subnets (there's only 7.. I've only used supernets twice in the last 10 years..) (I admit I slow down a little when I do wildcard netmasks, but other than that.. ?) I heard tales of kids (ie under 25) learning partial differential equations in university or college as well (which I myself had trouble with but eventually got, at least long enough to write the exam!) so why is the mathematics/symbolics manipulation bar set so low in modern courses in any sci/tech stream? /kc On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 01:22:45PM -0500, Sadiq Saif said: >On 12/22/2014 11:11, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote: >> Did the standard packaged Cisco curriculum finally drop mention of >> "Class A/B/C" and go CIDR? > >For the most part yes. They still reference it for historical purposes >but otherwise it is all VLSM/CIDR. > >-- >Sadiq Saif -- Ken Chase - ken () heavycomputing ca skype:kenchase23 +1 416 897 6284 Toronto Canada Heavy Computing - Clued bandwidth, colocation and managed linux VPS @151 Front St. W.
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