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- From: mark@kraken.ucsd.edu (Mark Anderson)
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- Subject: Re: Colleges Need to Fix the Bugs in Computer-Science Courses
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- Date: 27 Jul 92 22:58:28 GMT
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- In article <2388.2a708d66@vger.nsu.edu> g_harrison@vger.nsu.edu (George C. Harrison, Norfolk State University) writes:
- >In article <matjmm.711728626@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>, matjmm@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (J. Morgan Morris) writes:
- >> pattis@cs.washington.edu (Richard Pattis) writes:
- >>
- >>>The July 15th issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education has this article on
- >>>page B3, as an opinon piece by Nathaniel S. Borenstein.
- >>
- >
- >"The university is...filled with alternative teaching paradigms that have much
- >to offer computer science. Architecture, for example, shares much with
- >programming.
-
- Although the point is well taken that "computer science" is a lot like
- (fill in the blank) and could gain a lot from their teaching methods,
- I find it ironic in the day when architects have an unemployment rate
- around 80% (a figure provided by an unemployed friend) to hold their
- field up as something to be emulated.
-
- My belief is that these alternative teaching paradigms are useful in
- their respective fields because those teaching were taught with the
- same methods. Most senior CS faculty were trained in some other field.
- I don't believe people can easily switch to a paradigm that they were
- not taught with, especially when teaching is not highly valued in
- employeement decisions.
-
- I'm looking forward to the day when the field is matures to the point
- where people can say "Computer Science is like ... Computer Science".
-
- mark
-