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Of course, arrogance and elitism are bad. But I hope tech never stops being a meritocracy. I would wager that most would-be CS people are put off from the subj
by xaa 14y ago
Of course, arrogance and elitism are bad. But I hope tech never stops being a meritocracy.
I would wager that most would-be CS people are put off from the subject not because of the arrogance of current programmers but simply because the subject is hard.
- jmduke 14y ago"I would wager that most would-be CS people are put off from the subject not because of the arrogance of current programmers but simply because the subject is hard." Maybe you don't realize it, but that mindset is arrogant. A lot of subjects are hard. CS isn't easy, but it sure seems a lot more difficult than it really is when you're sitting in a 100-level class struggling to understand the material when a sizable portion of the students are engaging in pissing contents because they mastered the material in middle school. I know -- I've been one of those struggling students.
- scott_s 14y agoI agree. While I saw technical entitlement in my CS undergrad courses, I never did see it in my math and physics courses.
- xaa 14y agoIn the U.S. there is a documented deficit of students entering STEM fields, which includes (but is not limited to) CS. My thesis is that this is because these subjects are objectively harder than, say, business or English. Whether it's politically correct or arrogant to say so has no bearing on whether it's true or not.