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Agreed. Schools don't really know how to teach programming. The focus should be on doing projects, not sitting in lectures. People should just get together in g
by arikrak 14y ago
Agreed. Schools don't really know how to teach programming. The focus should be on doing projects, not sitting in lectures. People should just get together in groups and work on coding, with someone to ask questions to if they're stuck. I doubt schools will change, but there are alternatives, like coding bootcamps.
- acuozzo 14y agoYour institution is doing something wrong if you're being taught ``programming'' while majoring in CS.
- aba_sababa 14y agoEh...excuse me?
- acuozzo 14y agoSee jfb's quote. Also, I went to Rutgers as well.
- aba_sababa 14y agoIf you aren't learning programming, you might as well study art history.
- jfb 14y ago"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
- stephengillie 14y agoI wish they'd call it Computational Science, since that's what it is. Computers are only involved for convenience, just like with geometry and lithography.
- jfb 14y agoI do think that both approaches are legitimate, but conflating engineering with mathematics just causes unnecessary confusion, and feeds pointless Internet flamewars over semantics.
- arikrak 14y agoI would suspect that most people majoring in Computer science are interested in developing software and only take courses on subjects like Calculus and Computer theory because they need to.