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- From: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
- Subject: Re: Will we keep ignoring this productivity issue?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.175850.17928@mole-end.matawan.nj.us>
- Summary: Pragmatics and immaturity
- Organization: :
- References: <1992Nov11.055130@eklektix.com> <1992Nov13.211018.24360@novell.com> <1ech41INN6jj@cs.ubc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:58:50 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- In article <1ech41INN6jj@cs.ubc.ca>, ajackson@cs.ubc.ca (Ann Jackson) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov13.211018.24360@novell.com>,
- > Duane Murphy <damurphy@wc.novell.com> writes:
- ...
- > |> I believe that we are not teaching programmers analysis before design.
- > |> We teach them syntax and pretend that this is analysis. Analysis is real
- > |> and important. How can you design a program that you cannot read!
-
- > This reminds me of taking a course in educational theory last year.
- > There's a widely-accepted hierarchy of cognitive skills that goes:
- > knowledge, ... analysis, synthesis, evaluation
-
- > Educators believe that we always learn our way up this hierarchy from
- > knowledge to evaluation. ... that in computer software, synthesis is
- > normally taught before analysis and that analysis receives far less
- > attention. The instructor ... was aware of this, and also that computer
- > science appears to be unique in this ... [have] the attractions of
- > programming have distorted our educational policies[?]
-
- I think it's natural given the immaturity of the field. Y'know, Onology
- Recapitulates Phylonogy, 'n all that. The field itself began with
- synthesis and got hung up on knowledge. Educators are confusing deep
- analysis of minimal data with a broad understanding rooted everwhere
- in the context. We've gotta' straighten things out, bit by bit.
- --
- (This man's opinions are his own.)
- From mole-end Mark Terribile
-
- mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
-