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> Imagine if university science departments switched to 1940s curriculum just for fun. My university physics curriculum was pretty much all around in the 1940s

> Imagine if university science departments switched to 1940s curriculum just for fun. My university physics curriculum was pretty much all around in the 1940s (classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, special and general relativity, etc.) I'm currently in a computer science department where the curriculum includes a bunch of stuff like Cassandra, Mongo, Javascript, Unity, etc. I think it would be good for those of us in computing to take more notice of our field's past (even by the 1940s we had lambda calculus, combinatory logic, etc.)

minikites 10y ago
If you took more than an intro class then I would say your university did you a disservice. And of course history has it's place for all fields of knowledge, but not at the expense of progress, which is the point I'm (poorly) attempting to make.
- jlappi 10y ago
  To me, it sounds more like that's the only point you can salvage from your original post. And that's stretching it.
  - minikites 10y ago
    I appreciate your contribution.