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More traditionally, at least a couple of formal logic classes. Nothing drilled into me the fundamental that the logic gate system is IN AND OF ITSELF an abstrac
by Mezzie 4y ago
More traditionally, at least a couple of formal logic classes. Nothing drilled into me the fundamental that the logic gate system is IN AND OF ITSELF an abstraction quite like the class where we constructed a formal language. (Which did not evaluate to true and false - it evaluated to tasty or not tasty)
Less traditionally, at least some digital history, politics, and ethics. History of computing at minimum, but ideally also things like the dot-com bust, the rise of search engines pre-Google, a basic idea of when and how the internet + WWW started to grow, the intersection of tech companies and governments, political issues in digital spaces (decentralized versus centralized, "real names" versus pseudonyms, how property ideas translate (or don't) to the digital world etc.) and going over some of the ethical dilemmas and fuckups the profession has faced in the past.