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I had an issue with this: "while in graduate school in American Studies, I realized that computer science was a method of understanding much like many others .
by neohed 6y ago
I had an issue with this:
"while in graduate school in American Studies, I realized that computer science was a method of understanding much like many others . . . I’d also misunderstood coding as a craft instead of a field of knowledge and inquiry."
I agree that computer science is a field of "knowledge and enquiry" (aren't all academic disciplines?) but disagree with his conflation of CS and "coding." Computer science has little to do with most software development which is very much a "craft"
- lordgrenville 6y agoThis sentence seems like a bizarre non sequitur. Absent some explanation of how American Studies connects to CS (perhaps this is obvious to American Studiers?), it reads like the equivalent of "while backpacking through Laos, I realised the New York subway system was in urgent need of repair".