On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Carlo Sogono wrote:
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> I agree. But I said that not because I wanted to prove that there was
> no one to teach students low level programming, but just wanted to say
> that even profs themselves have not learned to program that well.
I dont think that's an issue. To (badly) paraphrase Eric Raymond, "all
programming languages are shallow given enough background," at least among
procedural languages (I'm of the opinion that non-procedural languages
such as Prolog are.. for "boutique" applications at best).
I think precisely what's missing from local CS curriculums is "hard" CS.
CS shouldn't teach programming -- that's a vocational-school type skill.
It should teach more basic things. Stuff by Knuth, Kahan, etc.
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