kirby urner wrote: > On 2/26/06, *Brad Miller* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > Data structures and algorithms may not be exciting (for Kay), but > they are as fundamental to computing as cells are to biology. > > > > I think the goal is to get into these quickly and painlessly (Python > helps!) but not make 'em the "be all end all" i.e. these are tools, > means to an end, but the object is to get work done on some project of > immediate import and interest. That's unlikely to be either data > structures or algorithms UNLESS you're a CS major or other kind of > math nerd. Nothing wrong with that, but we're not prejudiced. We're > *happy* to equip students with a lot of CS savvy and send them on > their merry way: to be graphic designers, to be cartoonists, to be > vampire slayers or what have you. > Well we are talking about CS courses. So I hear you reluctantly agreeing that there this it is appropriately core curricula. The first 2 words of the title of Brad's book is 'Problem Solving' - implying a "means to an ends". What else?
Kay? You admire him. I judge his public persona harshly. He is paraphrases by an admirer: ""nothing exciting about computing today has to do with data structures and algorithms""" I don't think there is *nothing* to that statement. But his way is to overstate things, not state things. I don't think that is appropriate for someone claiming to represent the high order of any branch of science - as he so claims. Art >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Edu-sig mailing list >Edu-sig@python.org >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
