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- From: pdh@netcom.com (Phil Howard )
- Subject: Re: Will we keep ignoring this productivity issue?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.091643.13590@netcom.com>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 09:16:43 GMT
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- mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us writes:
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- >Echoing my own favorite refrain: There is no circuit theory for software.
- >The theoretical computer sciences are closer to advanced Fields and Waves
- >or Communication Theory: essential in the long run, but not a first-order
- >theory describing what you work with continually.
-
- The Computer Scientists are too busy trying to get people AWAY from
- thinking about the bits and bytes (and towards the abstract) to get
- people to properly understand how to deal with the bits and bytes.
-
- In EE you START from the bottom and work your way up. You learn to
- understand the building blocks. Computers SHOULD be taught the same
- way. In fact I am awfully tempted to say that the circuit theory and
- digital circuits courses should be taught to even though wanting to
- become programmers. At least some machine language should be.
-
-
- >An Engineering School education is a special blend of theory and practice,
- >one I feel quite privileged to have enjoyed. It's been ten years since I
- >got my degrees, but I see no evidence that the software world has as yet
- >anything like it.
-
- NOTHING like it... and I didn't even have to go through engineering to
- know that.
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