Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uwmcsd1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!uwmcsd1!jerry From: jerry@uwmcsd1.UUCP (Jerry Lieberthal) Newsgroups: net.cse Subject: Re: Exams vs. Programming Assignments Message-ID: <550@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 16:03:47 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmcsd1.550 Posted: Tue Oct 1 16:03:47 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Oct-85 05:26:34 EDT References: <823@dataio.Dataio.UUCP> <6358@duke.UUCP> <10497@ucbvax.ARPA> Organization: U of Wi-Milwaukee, Computing Services Div Lines: 25 > >>Computer Science is Algorithms and Theory. [ ... lots deleted ... ] > > >Hah! [ ... lots deleted ... ] The language of and reason for computer > >science is programming -- and computer scientists who can't write > >good programs are as useless as English teachers who can't write an > >proper and grammatical term paper. > > >>Grad School is for the best students, the ones who can think, not > >>(necessarily) the ones who can program. > > > Computer *SCIENCE* is not the same as computer *PROGRAMMING*. > Then there is always D. Knuth's assertion that computer programming is an art, not a science ... -- ------------------------------------------------ - jerry University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Computing Services Division {ihnp4, uwvax, uwmacc}!uwmcsd1!jerry uwmcsd1!jerry@wisc-rsch.ARPA Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com