Re:Brendan Eich on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
by brailsafe on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @07:51PM
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Ya, that seems like a good idea. As of the last few years, philosophy courses at my school were not required, but you'd do them as part of your electives. I don't know how you'd actually formulate a comp sci specific ethics course, but it's an interesting thought experiment
Re:Brendan Eich on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
by mjgs on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @08:50PM
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About the only non-computery course we had was a business / management / entrepreneur type course. I don’t remember if it was something we chose to do, but it wasn’t part of the core set of courses that made up the degree.
Re:Brendan Eich on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
by brailsafe on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:53AM
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I feel like we may have had completely different undergrad structures from reading your other comments in this thread. I took my CS degree in the CS department of a liberal arts Uni, and so had a bunch of optional arts credits to fulfill along with some amount of science and then a bunch of specific CS courses.
Having had a glipse of a CS degree that's part of another school's engineering department, I believe their structure is more rigid, and specifically detailed for 4 years.
It got me thinking though, about the value of having some philosophy in comp sci courses.
Back when I was doing my masters (2002-2003) it was a different era for the web, there wasn’t much thought to ethics or philosophy, but I think it could be very relevant these days. It strikes me that it could be a particularly good time to read the ZAMM book.
I don’t know much about comp sci courses these days, maybe they do have such modules included.