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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:17:21 +0200
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On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:18:20 -0400, Hyman Rosen wrote:

> On 4/22/2011 5:21 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> Not every man or woman can program. I doubt that programming
>> should be taught to people specializing on other majors.
> 
> No, you're wrong about that. It is correct that not everyone
> can program, but many people exhibit a talent for it regardless
> of their major, and may not know that because they've never tried.

They may have a talent to knitting. So what? Programming is not a
fundamental knowledge like mathematics or physics that any educated person
must know.

> If you limit teaching programming to those who are majoring in
> software-related fields, you'll lose a lot of possible talent.

I don't care of a surgeon having some talent to programming. I care of
programmers. I don't want either programming surgeons or programmers
performing surgical operations.

>> software engineering
> 
> When I was still reading computer journals many years ago, it
> seemed to me that papers on software engineering were only about
> doing various kinds of measurements of the development process, and
> were dull and useless.

Right, CS is not a science and programming is not engineering. These papers
are as scientific as knitting journals...

> They were never about how to program well.

Yep, differently to them people publishing knitting musters at least can
knit. (:-))

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de