Re: Programmers -> Engineers; Engineers -> Programmers

[Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>]

Jack W Scheible writes:

"In _my_ experience, people who major in Computer Science tend to be
 dullards; if they were not, they would have majored in EE.
 
 There is nary an engineering curriculum in the country that does not
 require programming, and nary a Computer Science curriculum that
 requires engineering classes."

Probably flame bait, but here goes. 

The presumption that the contents of an entire discipline can be learnt
as an adjuct to another course in a "by the way, here's how to program"
manner is rather amazing.
Students in our double degree computer science/computer systems engineering
course are _not_ dullards. They often remark on how much better the
programming
information is from computer science.
Similarly the manufacturing systems engineering students who are based on
the same campus as me, comment on how lacking some of their computing 
experiences have been (they are not taught by us).

Jack's "in _my_ experience" reminds me of "i've never been so insulted!",
"you should get out more". Jack, you really need to get out more.


Dale