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These aren't computer science students. Most of them won't find recursion and data abstraction interesting in the slightest. If their primary interests were i
by na85 13y ago
These aren't computer science students. Most of them won't find recursion and data abstraction interesting in the slightest. If their primary interests were in computer science I'm sure they would have gone into a comp sci program.
These students are there to learn programming as a tool to help them solve problems. The elegant recursive algorithm isn't really a goal they have. Their goal is to get a reasonable answer to a problem so they can move on with more important things.
- cgag 13y agoThat's fair if you're only doing a one semester for non-majors thing. I just saw "our undergraduates" and the debate about learning C and took it to mean starting a CS education with C. Those things I mentioned are how you solve problems though. What I was getting at is learning the low level details of how a computer, or at least C, works isn't problem solving.
- na85 13y ago>What I was getting at is learning the low level details of how a computer, or at least C, works isn't problem solving. Agree 100%