Re: Software Engineering Education

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In article <1991Jul3.233045.11174@netcom.COM> jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter) wr
ites:
[proposes removing General Education from the curriculum as a way to
make room for more software engineering -- including the standard "if
I'm not interested, why should I take it" speech]

If you wish to be a code-droid then by all means get a programming
degree.  If you want to be an engineer then you will require the
skills of critical analysis that the study of english can teach; the
understanding of human behavior that psychology can teach; the
understanding of creativity that art can teach; ...

That said, it is true that a interested student will take courses even
when they are not required, and an uninterested one won't get anything
out of required ones.  Maybe we should require interest instead of
courses :-)
--
Alexander Erskine Wise /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Software Development Laboratory
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