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On the Cruelty Of Really Teaching Computer Science[pdf]
- iwr 16y agoGood penmanship, by the way (date: 1988). Do young kids today get to practice their handwriting much? Good stuff so far: "By evoking the need for deep conceptual hierarchies, the automatic computer confronts us with a radically new intellectual challenge that has no precedent in our history."
- Tyr42 16y agoWe still do, for now. But I can see the transition coming in one or two people eschewing handwriting for laptops in eachof my classes at the high school level.
- kasharoo 16y ago"...the subculture of the compulsive programmer, whose ethics prescribe that one silly idea and a month of frantic coding should suffice to make him a life-long millionaire" How did he know about us back in 1988?