>> 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.
>Knuth wrote the 3-volume series "The Art of Computer Programming",
>(Fundamental Algorithms, Seminumerical Algorithms, Sorting and Searching).
>He was teaching programming in his books. I think what you mean is that
>the CS programming courses should not concentrate on "syntax of the
language"
>but instead concentrate on algorithms that work and on program correctness.
Do you think the other four volumes will ever see the light of day? <sigh>
It's annoying how Knuth teased us about their contents. <impish grin>
I'd disagree, though - he wasn't really teaching programming as in putting
together solutions and all of that, but rather he was trying to make an
encyclopedia of algorithms. I hope I haven't misunderstood the introduction
to Book 1, where he said something to that effect. =)
Sacha 8)
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