I don't really care about what the city does with its workers. UF President John Lombardi hopes to solve the computer illiteracy and lack of equipment problems by requiring students to get access to computers on their own. But Lombardi first needs to realize people should not get a computer unless they will be trained in some way. A company does not just throw a worker into its work place cold.
Companies provide training.
Do not tell me that CGS 3531 or those other basic computer classes really teach people anything. Obviously, if a student who has taken the class still does not know how to save a file to a disk, then the instructor, if not the whole department, is doing something wrong. Let's face it, many UF students are computer stupid. Let us go back to the Center for Instructional Research Computing Activities labs. UF gives students these labs to use because the equipment they provide is expensive and the instruction they supposedly provide is meant to be useful.