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No. Current technologies do not move fast, because computer science and maths in general are still hard. This year's "hot" approach isn't fundamentally differ
by teacup50 11y ago
No.
Current technologies do not move fast, because computer science and maths in general are still hard.
This year's "hot" approach isn't fundamentally different from last year's hot approach, and it won't be fundamentally different from next year's hot approach.
Our educational system needs to be designed around enabling people to understand the fundamentals of what they're doing, instead of code-by-marketing. Those fundamentals do not change rapidly; the books have a lifetime measured in decades, not days, and they provide the background necessary to evaluate, understand, implement, or reject any of those "hot" new approaches.
- Kalium 11y agoIf all you know is COBOL, Python and Ruby are radical departures. If all you know is XHTML, React is fundamentally different. If you know your CS fundamentals, it's all comprehensible readily enough. I think we're in violent agreement. If you know your CS and mathematics, the current hotness is stuff you can grasp. If you don't, odds are you're in trouble.
- copperx 11y agoI agree. Nothing like reading a research paper about the current hotness and wondering "how the hell do I implement this???"
- spacecowboy_lon 11y agoI recall we had a 20 year COBOL guy move onto our web team he found Perl a challenge :-)
- gizi 11y agoI pretty much agree. Most of what is hot and gets hyped, is actually useless; and indeed, you need a firm grasp on the fundamentals to see that. I personally reject 99% of the hot approaches.