Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!pyrdc!gmu90x!dstalder
From: dstalder@gmu90x.UUCP (Darren Stalder)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: What is CS? (Was re First languages)
Message-ID: <906@gmu90x.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 88 02:08:08 GMT
References: <4807@ecsvax.UUCP> <336@abcom.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: dstalder@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Darren Stalder)
Organization: George Mason University
Lines: 26
Keywords: CS, What should be taught
Summary: Just a little comment

This is only marginally related to the topic at hand.  go ahead and
flame me if you desire, they will be ignored.

A college professor and I were talking about what should really be
taught in a programming course to prepare them for the real world.  

My suggestions were:  Give someone a piece of spaghetti code that does
one thing.  Give them some trivial mods to get it to do the same thing
only slightly different.  Tell them that it is due tomorrow and that
the entire thing needs to be documented in full.

His suggestions:  Give them a project and tell them it needs to do
this.  Give them a data set that isnt valid.  Then halfway to the due
date, change what the program needs to do and tell them it needs to be
done in 2 days.

Just a little comment from your local reality checker..
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