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Thanks for sending me Crossroads

I received my first hard copy of Crossroads the other day and was very pleased. I enjoy reading Communications of the ACM but being an undergrad, it is very easy to get lost in all the technical jargon I have yet to learn.

Crossroads is perfect for those of us who are just getting used to logic flow charts and organizational restructuring. I would love to see a Crossroads with even more information in it (ie, more pages). Thanks for sending me Crossroads. I actually comprehended the information contained within.

Darin Crites
Management Information Systems Undergraduate
University of Arizona
darin@gas.uug.arizona.edu

Stories a bit dry

After reading the latest issue of Crossroads I felt that the stories were a bit dry. The history of the Internet is truly uninteresting after you have seen it for the ump-teenth time and tech stuff was out of scope for what I thought the magazine should offer.

I would find a focus group and proceed with articles interesting to them instead of the scatter effect that I perceive when reading Crossroads. The tech articles and reviews could be found in MANY other sources whereas the student reports and career info is very college student.

OTOH, software & hardware reviews from students who IMO tend to be power users is very interesting and would be an angle not covered my ACM Communications or a commercial PC Magazine.

Bryan S. Bateman
Recent graduate
GMI Engineering & Management Institute
Flint, MI

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C++ treatise particularly helpful

Hi there. I read about Crossroads in the recent issue of ACM MemberNet which featured you guys. I browsed through your recent issue of Crossroads and was quite impressed by what I saw. I found G. Borden Wise's treatise on C++ to be particularly helpful, as well as Saul Jiminez's "Social Responsibility and the CS Student", which provided me with information about groups like EFF and FSF.

Raj Iyer
Computer Science '97 / Math '97
University of Pennsylvania
rajiyer@seas.upenn.edu

Excellent articles!

I just got my first copy of Crossroads. Excellent articles! They are very relevant to today's issues and have just to right amount of technical content to keep folks interested! Keep up the good work.

Mahesh Neelakanta
Recent graduate
Florida Atlantic University
mahesh@cse.fau.edu

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