Dijkstra's Computing Science
I'm surprised to see Richard and Chris speaking of "Computer Science" in the UK. I suppose nobody calls it Computing Science anymore.
Although I'm doing CS in Canada, when I was an undergrad, they refrained from teaching us specific stuff like C, C++, Unix or DOS -- except for the bare minimum necessary to bootstrap ourselves. They taught us programming and how to think. We learned syntax and the joys of semi-colons on our own during the weekend. They made a point of telling us that.
A university course on HTML would have been especially inconceivable!
Things are certainly different nowadays and, for better or worse, the university has moved forward with the market demand.
Although I'm doing CS in Canada, when I was an undergrad, they refrained from teaching us specific stuff like C, C++, Unix or DOS -- except for the bare minimum necessary to bootstrap ourselves. They taught us programming and how to think. We learned syntax and the joys of semi-colons on our own during the weekend. They made a point of telling us that.
A university course on HTML would have been especially inconceivable!
Things are certainly different nowadays and, for better or worse, the university has moved forward with the market demand.
posted by Navindra Umanee at 13:35
3 Comments:
Amen to that!
The subject has been called Computer Science in the UK since at least 1978.
Nick Leverton nick@leverton.org
Ah well, guess I got mislead by Dijkstra. :)
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