Learning to program is getting harder

Re:Learning to program is getting harder by mrexroad on Sunday February 18, 2018 @12:17AM (#16404581)

Again, why? FWIW I have a fancy degree in computer science and spent my childhood rebuilding and scraping together old 2/3/486 boxes. Yet I think it’s terrific that someone would be interested enough to enroll in a CS program without having wintel/Linux boxbuilding trivia knowledge.

The perception of what makes a viable CS major needs to evolve past what those born during the “Personal Computer” era think it should be.

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Re:Learning to program is getting harder by Hextinium on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:22AM (#16411746)

I do agree with that and I have seen quite a few brilliant programmers be born in classes but there is a point where you start to expect them know some basic stuff like what a router, IDE and script are so that I don't have to explain them in full just to say how to make something work.

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