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I think academia would generally respond that CS is about the concepts not the syntax. Universities need to do a better job raising street fighters, but I don
by acgourley 19y ago
I think academia would generally respond that CS is about the concepts not the syntax.
Universities need to do a better job raising street fighters, but I don't think it needs to be through course load. There needs to be more programming competitions, more open ended assignments, more CS related clubs and projects, etc. Sure not everyone will participate, but if they don't, they are never going to be good programmers anyway.
And lets face it, if universities had more ways to allow students to implement fun things like games or robots (or startups), they would certainly be more willing to spend their extra cycles out of class learning implementation.
- jey 19y agoI totally agree. As acgourley said, not everyone will participate, but these sorts of programs would give a solid opportunity to develop more practical skills to people who aren't willing to take initiative to learn it entirely on their own. I'm strongly opposed to the idea that the Algorithms or Theory of Computation class should be traded in for a course on .NET GUI Development, Ruby on Rails, or some other API-du-jour. University is about learning concepts and theory, not just a few programming languages and APIs. The real problem is that trade schools are unfairly stigmatized, and people who want to learn to be a programmer without wading through all the algorithms and theory have to still go to a University for social reasons when they'd be better served by a trade school.
- acgourley 19y agoif it isn't the street fighter himself...