SICP is Under Attack

Re:SICP is Under Attack by absconditus on Thursday August 04, 2011 @07:20AM (#2845459)

What does your comment have to do with what I wrote? No one is denying that many people really want a vocational education. No one is claiming that smart people should want to be academics. The point is that what people want is not computer science. Civil engineers do not enroll in physics programs and then complain that their physics professors are not teaching them anything about practical bridge construction.

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Re:SICP is Under Attack by Apocryphon on Thursday August 04, 2011 @01:46PM (#2846941)

Then the problem is with college departments and administration who fail to create separate programs distinguishing between CS and SE.

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Re:SICP is Under Attack by zoips on Thursday August 04, 2011 @04:01PM (#2847504)

I'd argue that that would be a really bad idea. You can't be a good software engineer without having a good grasp of Computer Science.

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Re:SICP is Under Attack by Apocryphon on Thursday August 04, 2011 @07:42PM (#2848297)

There's nothing to stop them from having a lot of overlap. Much like how Computer Engineering overlaps quite a bit with EE.

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