The Two Cultures of Computing (2013)

Re:The Two Cultures of Computing (2013) by andrepd on Friday August 05, 2016 @01:34PM (#12234211)

I firmly dislike this style of writing. I call it ADD writing. It took 3x as many words to write and 5x as much time to read than if he had just gone straight to the point, instead of going off on some over-the-top rant or irrelevant tangent every other sentence.

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Re:The Two Cultures of Computing (2013) by TheOtherHobbes on Friday August 05, 2016 @02:48PM (#12234855)

I agree. This is a superficial and not very original or insightful piece. It doesn't take genius to describe the difference.

You can take almost any field - building, architecture, engineering, law - and explain the variation in approach between a user and a professional.

Different expectations? Yes

Different experience? Yes

Different culture? Yes

Different skills? Yes

Different tools? Yes

Why should computing be any different?

It worries me that someone who is an associate professor is making such a big deal out of this.

He may have a point that students who are used to a GUI are going to have some issues getting used to writing raw code. But it's not as if IDEs don't exist, or that you have to be an expert on the Bash shell to write an iPhone app.

I'm really not seeing the problem.

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Re:The Two Cultures of Computing (2013) by gavinpc on Friday August 05, 2016 @04:26PM (#12235513)

I really enjoyed the writing style. It was funny throughout, so the length doesn't matter. And it's for a general audience so some cushion is needed.

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