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At some point, the plane flew so high above the clouds, and it hasn't seen the ground for so long, the passengers might think the clouds is the ground.
by keyle 3y ago
At some point, the plane flew so high above the clouds, and it hasn't seen the ground for so long, the passengers might think the clouds is the ground.
- turtleyacht 3y agoWhen "Hello World" is a cloud instance spun up and billed on your tuition. That won't really happen, right? No Computer Science (CS) professor would designate special cloud Interactive Development Environments (IDEs) to students. On the other hand, it would really resolve a lot of "doesn't work on my machine" issues.
- samarthr1 3y agoI think that would be a great way to make a weeder course? Setup some obscure software, with poor documentation, build something nice on top of it, then rewrite it because some fundamental assumption is broken, sounds like this kind of first year of cs course we should have. The idea being weeding out those not as passionate about computers.
- dllthomas 3y agoIt's been a while, but when I was in school I think things had to work on the campus ultrasparc systems.
- kjs3 3y agoGood way to catch unaligned access errors. I seem to recall a similar "you can develop on whatever you want, but to turn it in it needs to work on the Dept systems" back in my college days. Intro to CS was in pascal, and a bunch of us started with Turbo Pascal on our PCs, and figured out pretty quick the Pascal on the AT&T SVR3 boxen was a very different beast.
- WorldMaker 3y agoAzure and AWS both have academic/educational resource buckets and discounts. GitHub has said one of the largest growing areas for Codespaces (cloud IDE) usage is Education. It's already happening. It does resolve a lot of "doesn't work on my machine" issues; it does leave some questions about how much students see of the "ground" below the Clouds.