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On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 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.
> -------------------------------
> hmm....that is interesting....can you define what you really mean by
> "hard" CS?
>
I think Orly means things like algorithmics, complexity theory, automata,
abstract languages, the theory of Turing machines, discrete math, etc. The
things which are fundamental to any study of computers; stuff which
doesn't change regardless of what company, what programming language, what
train of thought happens to be dominant at any given time. Stuff that
further abstracts the ideas behind computer programming.
This stuff is de rigueur for those students of mathematics who dwell on
discrete math, of course, which is why, I think, that someone has
mentioned that he got better results from speaking with mathematics majors
than with computer science majors.
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