Re:How We Teach Programming, and Where We're Going Wrong
by geocar on Sunday February 07, 2016 @09:17AM
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I'm not convinced computer science curriculums are teaching even "CS-folks" to code; I have observed people come to university already knowing how to code, or possessing whatever it is that allows them to code.
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Re:How We Teach Programming, and Where We're Going Wrong
by CryoLogic on Sunday February 07, 2016 @11:45AM
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I just got a phone call from a friend in his last quarter at a top 10 uni last night - he was stressed out because his research group hadn't actually written any code yet. It was all copy pasted from other projects.
They ran into some issues, and have no idea how the code base works and can't fix it. I think (on my experience) schools teach you syntax, and lots of history. Not much application.