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