Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015)

Re:Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015) by andrewflnr on Thursday October 23, 2025 @11:43PM (#45690539)

You first sentences already suggest one comparison between the histories of computing and philosophy: history of computing ought to be much easier. Most of it is still in living memory. Yet somehow, the philosophy people manage it while we computing people rarely bother.

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Re:Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015) by markus_zhang on Thursday October 23, 2025 @11:50PM (#45690572)

I always think it is great value to have a whole range of history of X courses.

I once thought about a series of PHYS classes that focus on historical ideas and experiments. Students are supposed to replicate the experiments. They have to read book chapters and papers.

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Re:Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015) by andrewflnr on Friday October 24, 2025 @12:28AM (#45690772)

That's not that far off the standard physics course, is it? Certainly lots of labs I took were directly based on historical experiments.

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Re:Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015) by vintermann on Friday October 24, 2025 @02:16AM (#45691418)

History of physics is another history where we have been extremely dependent on the "substrate". Better instruments and capacity to analyze results, obviously, but also advances in mathematics.

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