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It seems strange to make "let's make it easier for people to teach Prolog who don't understand it." At very best, this'll lead to students with a minimal factua
by JadeNB 1y ago
It seems strange to make "let's make it easier for people to teach Prolog who don't understand it." At very best, this'll lead to students with a minimal factually correct knowledge of Prolog, and no idea why it matters. If we're imagining changing teachers' practice, why not aim a little higher and try to convince faculty that Prolog is interesting, at which point anyone qualified to teach computer science can learn about it themselves, and teach it better than from material designed around their ignorance?
- passivegains 1y agothe author is pretty up front about this: I would like to live in a world where professors consider Prolog worth knowing and put in the effort. That probably isn’t realistic. He clearly wishes he's wrong, which makes three of us.
- JadeNB 1y agoRight, but thinking you can change how people teach a subject without their believing it's worth knowing seems unrealistic, too!