Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!RITVAX.BITNET!LEM0333 From: LEM0333@RITVAX.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: RE: School Message-ID: <8804080959.aa27145@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Date: 8 Apr 88 16:58:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 36 Michael Alan Wertheim writes: > 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? Yes, in a way, they do. Not that it's needed, but it certainly helps. It really has nothing to do with computer literacy, because if that were the case schools would be teaching applications, not programming. The reason they teach high-level programming (when was the last time assembly was a requirement) is because of the logic involved in designing such a program. 'Good' programmin g skills have nothing to do with tricky code, they have to do with how one can visualize a problem and solve it. Modular languages such as Pascal help people learn how to do just that inn an organised manner, which solves more than just programming problems. Lee E. Manevitch __________________________________________________________________________ | ############# | | # # LEM0333@RITVAX | | # ######### # | | # # # # LEM0333%ritvax.bitnet@cornellc.ccs.cornell.edu | | # # ##### # # | | # # # # # # Lee Manevitch | | # # # # # # CPU#958 | | # # ## 25 Andrews Memorial Dr. | | # # R.I.T. Rochester, NY 14623 | | # #### | | # Disclaimer: "Just because I study here doesn't mean | | ###### I like it..." | |________________________________________________________________________|