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From: 880716a@aucs.UUCP (Dave Astels)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: CS-1
Keywords: beginning computer science course
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Date: 12 May 89 22:26:01 GMT
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In article <23855@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> kwan@cs.ucla.edu (Edmund Kwan) writes:
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>Perhaps you are talking about prototyping?

I guess I am.  My area of interest (Natural Language) seems to be one of
"this sounds like it will work, let's try it!"

Also, I am a self-taught hacker.  As such I haven't much use for 'by the book'
software engineering.  If it feels right try it.  It's called creativity (as
opposed to rote design).  Although in a well defined domain like CS-1 level,
this approach isn't needed, and a good grounding on methodical problem
solving is required (at least for the first year CS students that I've seen).
But on the other hand, they shouldn't be limited in their problem solving
techniques.  Sometimes a shot in the dark pays off.