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From: sullivan@aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Theory vs. Practice in CS Education
Message-ID: <1989Nov27.230724.12252@aqdata.uucp>
Date: 27 Nov 89 23:07:24 GMT
References: <16195@duke.cs.duke.edu>
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From article <16195@duke.cs.duke.edu>, by crm@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Charlie Martin):
> 
> It seems as if we *might could* teach people to write decent code in
> their programming courses, however.  But my strong impression is that we
> don't, in general, insist on anything except that it will compile and
> that it will compute the right answer in the one test case the grader
> applies.

Don't forget that CS courses don't teach programming, they teach (start
the choir) "SCIENCE" (the choir finishes).  I seem to recall that of
my classes at UC Santa Barbara, the only class with the word "programming"
in it was "Programming Languages", an overview of several different languages.
Even the introductory courses were "Introduction to Computer Science".
If schools ever got around to teaching programming they might just do a
swell job.
-- 
Michael Sullivan          uunet!jarthur.uucp!aqdata!sullivan
aQdata, Inc.              aqdata!sullivan@jarthur.claremont.edu
San Dimas, CA


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