I'd recommend a look at this book http://blough.ece.gatech.edu/3020/focs.pdf http://blough.ece.gatech.edu/3020/focs.pdf .It will show you what you've been missi

I'd recommend a look at this book http://blough.ece.gatech.edu/3020/focs.pdf http://blough.ece.gatech.edu/3020/focs.pdf .It will show you what you've been missing in the preface and the first chapter. An interesting point by the authors was that this was the way they felt CS should be taught, with the fundamentals and all presented side-by-side with the code. But when you think about it(from mathematics for example) we need accountants who use mathematics effectively without having to understanding Fermat's last theorem...