From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!ispd-newsserver!ism.isc. com!b1!ico!auto-trol!mattel@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Matt Telles)
Subject: Re: Is CM important? (was: Use pragma INLINE or not?)
Date: 8 Jul 91 15:45:27 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1991Jul8.154527.29136@auto-trol.com> (raw)
In article <1991Jul3.233045.11174@netcom.COM> jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter) wr
ites:
>Mike asks what should be dropped from a computer science curriculum in
>order to make room for more software engineering courses.
>
>General ed.
>
>Yes, yes--I've heard all the talk about how we want to turn out fully
>formed humans with wide ranging interests in things as diverse as
>foreign languages, Shakespeare, etc.
>
>Bull.
>
>What we OUGHT to be turning out is crack software engineers with a sound
>background in fundamental computer science. If Shakespeare has to take
>a backseat to that, so be it. The rationale for forcing someone who is
>not interested in, say, 14th century history to learn it anyway has always
>eluded me--it's not as if the person comes away from a course on it that
>he/she was forced to take and that interfered with their actual area of
>study any wiser, happier, or more inclined to love history. Let those
>who have wide-ranging interests pursue them, by all means--but let those
>who are techo-weenies and who will always BE techno-weenies at least
>excel at it.
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Jim,
This really doesn't belong in comp.lang.ada (Maybe comp.software-eng??) but
I will answer your comment anyway. I am a programmer/system engineer/whatever
you want to call me. I work with many other programmers, many of whom:
* cannot write in English (or any other non-programming language).
* cannot reasonably understand user requirements because they do not have an
y
common frame of reference.
* cannot do the job because of the above two points.
If you want to drop something from the Computer Science degree area, try the
following:
- Calculus: No one uses the stuff anyway and you can always look it up.
- Algebra : ""
- FORTRAN : This is obvious ..
- Ada : Hey! This way the rest of us can get jobs ..
:)'s for the humor impaired .....
Matt
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1991-07-08 15:45 Matt Telles [this message]
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1991-07-10 0:36 Is CM important? (was: Use pragma INLINE or not?) Robert I. Eachus
1991-07-08 12:29 Kennet h B. Hawks
1991-07-06 21:20 Michael Feldman
1991-07-04 18:49 Jim Showalter
1991-07-04 15:27 Greg Eisenhauer
1991-07-03 23:30 Jim Showalter
1991-07-03 23:23 Jim Showalter
1991-07-03 20:32 Michael Feldman
1991-07-03 18:27 Greg Harvey
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