Helping my students overcome command-line bullshittery

Re:Helping my students overcome command-line bullshittery by diminish on Friday October 10, 2014 @12:17PM (#8438547)

So considering the OP is an "Assistant Professor of Computer Science University of Rochester" please refine your analogy whether his target audience falls closer to become the cab driver or the mechanic?

Edit: quoted below OP's case:

>> Write a piece of prototype computer software that demonstrates the feasibility of a novel idea."

>> Write a piece of prototype computer software that collects, processes, and analyzes data to produce novel insights about some topic"

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Re:Helping my students overcome command-line bullshittery by tptacek on Friday October 10, 2014 @12:19PM (#8438556)

Facility with the Unix command line is not in fact all that valuable for fundamental CS research.

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Re:Helping my students overcome command-line bullshittery by mcguire on Friday October 10, 2014 @12:57PM (#8438792)

The "killer app" for most CS researchers is indeed Microsoft Word.

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Re:Helping my students overcome command-line bullshittery by pbsd on Friday October 10, 2014 @01:03PM (#8438823)

Nonsense. The standard writing tool in mathematics and computer science is LaTeX, which has plenty of bullshittery of its own. Most researchers will generally be suspicious of a Word-produced paper, since it usually will come from crackpots.

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Re:Helping my students overcome command-line bullshittery by mcguire on Friday October 10, 2014 @01:32PM (#8439008)

I was actually quoting Philip Grenspun there[1].

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=Gb6vumaGwJAC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA...

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Re:Helping my students overcome command-line bullshittery by pjene on Friday October 10, 2014 @01:12PM (#8438890)

the standard writing tool in mathematics and computer science is the pencil. Or pen, if you are feeling cocky.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/

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