On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 12:38 -0600, John Zelle wrote: > Actually, most CS types would say that programming itself is > not an academic subject; rather it is a skill of some importance to > the > study of "real" academic subjects such as Computer Science.
It's also worth remembering that lots of programming and general technology use goes on outside of CS departments. Our computational linguistics program is based on Python, and the biology and geology departments here at SDSU also teach Python. We're not training our students to be programmers, we're just trying to give them the basic computational skills necessary to study language, genes, etc. Also, I just sat on the search committee for hiring a new director of operations for our language lab -- there was lots of discussion of the flashy new web frameworks that their tech people use. Sure, it's all going to be obsolete by the time our current students are 30, just like all those laser disks we have are obsolete now. But so what? They're not teaching .net, they're just using it to develop new ways of teaching languages, which is about as liberal-education-y a goal as you can get. -- Rob Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages San Diego State University _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
