Re:Nobody Wants to Learn How to Program
by snikolov on Sunday March 04, 2012 @10:58PM
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Because most colleges teach "computer science" not "software engineering". Computer science is primarily about abstract concepts, and not so much about necessarily doing anything worthwhile with them
A computer science curriculum (even a theoretical one) need not consist only of abstract concepts. And it need not include software if the purpose is to have a theoretical curriculum. I've always been a fan projects whose primary purpose is to help you learn the concepts. My favorite courses have been of the type where the problem sets are: "read this paper; understand it; implement the algorithms; write a report with results and discussion."
A computer science curriculum (even a theoretical one) need not consist only of abstract concepts. And it need not include software if the purpose is to have a theoretical curriculum. I've always been a fan projects whose primary purpose is to help you learn the concepts. My favorite courses have been of the type where the problem sets are: "read this paper; understand it; implement the algorithms; write a report with results and discussion."