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- From: rro@cs.ColoState.EDU (Rod Oldehoeft)
- Newsgroups: comp.edu
- Subject: Re: Are programmers Computer Scientists?
- Message-ID: <Sep03.194343.67982@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 19:43:43 GMT
- References: <1992Sep3.174548.29169@ulowell.ulowell.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep3.174548.29169@ulowell.ulowell.edu>, wex@cs.ulowell.edu (Paul M. Wexelblat) writes:
- |>
- |> The (quite valid) question raised is whether Fortran should be
- |> taught to CS students.
-
- I think the opportunity should be there, but not the requirement, and
- certainly not as a first language. We offer a half-semester module
- that assumes the student can program in a modern language.
-
- |>
- |> My question is:
- |>
- |> Just because someone programs (is required to program)
- |> a. Is that person a Computer Scientist
- |> b. Should that person be called a Computer Scientist.
- |>
- |> -or-
- |> are all programmers Computer Scientists?
- |> [are all programming courses CS courses?]
-
- This is related to the question "Are all programmers software
- engineers?" In industriana the two terms have become somewhat
- interchangeable. However, software engineering also has a
- definition as a discipline (mostly) within computer science.
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