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My impression is that engineers who've gone through the SICP have a much better overall sense of the structure of things and how they should be built. Having w
by busterarm 4y ago
My impression is that engineers who've gone through the SICP have a much better overall sense of the structure of things and how they should be built.
Having worked with a lot of SICP-trained and non-SICP-trained engineers from MIT, I think I would prefer to work with the former. That said, it could completely be other factors.
Computer Science's recent ascension to "prestige degree" status over doctors, lawyers, etc. has had and will continue to have a lot of negatives for our industry.
- karmakaze 4y agoI'd like to take that as data but there are too many potentially confounding variables.
- busterarm 4y agoIn the comment I agreed as much.
- karmakaze 4y agoBut in phrasing it as 'prefer to work with SICP-trained' belies that, which might better be expressed as "were in CS at MIT" between 1980-2000. Edit: sorry meant as clarification, not a dig.
- busterarm 4y agoOh, I didn't really take it personally. And you're absolutely right, there's certainly a kind of ageism undercutting my statement. I'll try a little to counter a little that with an observation that experience isn't always everything.