Re: Great SWT Program
- From: Patricia Shanahan <pats@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:27:53 -0700
bbound@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Oct 13, 1:47 pm, blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:....I think so -- if we're talking about people enrolled in a degree
program in computer science. In my opinion, the goal of such
programs should be to turn out people who know how to learn, not
people trained in today's hot languages/technologies/whatever.
It should be to teach people how to program, should it not? Language-
independence I'm all for; teach them general algorithm, data
structure, OO, and such concepts, and generally-applicable debugging,
etc. techniques.
Teaching how to program should be part of a computer science course,
just as teaching about geography should be part of a geography course.
However, all university courses, regardless of nominal topic, are
supposed to teach how to think and learn, and those are the really
important skills.
I use very little of the actual material I learned in getting my CS
master's degree in 1975. It is many years since the last time I
programming in Algol, Snobol, Cobol, Macro-15 etc.
On the other hand, knowing how to learn a programming language has been
invaluable.
The meta-skills that let one learn new material are the difference
between being employable for a few years and having a life-long career.
Patricia
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