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From: mw22+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Alan Wertheim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: school
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Date: 6 Apr 88 21:36:59 GMT
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Re: "schools probably teach TOO much programming... That type of education
really belongs in college."

I even wonder about that.  At CMU, a few years ago they instituted a basic
computing requirement that requires everyone -- including engineers,
architects, creative writing majors, drama majors, etc. -- to take one semester
of either Pascal programming or Lisp programming.

Now I can see how an architect can benefit from a good drawing program and how
a writing major could benefit from a good word-processor, but do these people
need to learn how to program?


Michael Wertheim
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

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