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- From: kambic@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Bonus, Iniquus, Celer - Delegitus Duo)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Will we keep ignoring this productivity issue?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.091220.9284@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 09:12:20 EST
- References: <1992Nov11.055130@eklektix.com> <1992Nov13.211018.24360@novell.com> <Bxtq6J.Br1@cs.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <Bxtq6J.Br1@cs.uiuc.edu>, hasker@cs.uiuc.edu (Rob Hasker) writes:
- > pdh@netcom.com (Phil Howard ) writes:
- [...]
- >>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.
- [...]
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- > The question is, what is the "bottom" in CS? Hardware? I suppose
- > that's traditional, but it's not the obviously correct answer since it
- > de-emphasizes looking at systems abstractly.
- [...]
- > Others would argue the case for the basis of CS being math.
- [...]
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- There is no one answer. The schools, and companies, with all of their various
- benefits and faults, act as filters to somehow give those people who will be
- "superprogrammers" the background knowledge in SW/CS that will enable them to
- apply their innate systemic thinking processes to SW and CS. I don't know if
- any particular type of educational system, curriculum, course work, will
- optimum for all SE's. At this stage of the development of SE, it is probably
- better that there is no stable curriculum. The field is still too dynamic.
-
- IMHO, there is probably no better background for SE than physics. Why?
- Problem solving. Experimental techniques. Basic understanding of the
- strangeness of the universe. All useful.
-
- We are all experiments in software engineering right now, because the field
- doesn't have the stability in training or definition that it needs.
-
- George Kambic
- sd
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