After reading this post, I can't help but remember 3 people: 1. Alan Kay on ACM (http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523 http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=

After reading this post, I can't help but remember 3 people: 1. Alan Kay on ACM (http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523 http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523): Once you have something that grows faster than education grows, you’re always going to get a pop culture. 2. Paul Graham: I’ve never liked the term “computer science.” The main reason I don’t like it is that there’s no such thing. Computer science is a grab bag of tenuously related areas thrown together by an accident of history, like Yugoslavia 3. Edsger W. Dijkstra: Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. How I finally disagree/agree with the author: if you plan to take a bad CS course, you are probably better off just getting a job. If you going for a good CS course, don't think you will learn just programming. You will learn it, not all of it, and it will probably be one of the least important things you'll learn.