On 10 Jan 2008, at 21:56, Levi Pearson wrote:
I suspect that if our CS schools continue to get dumbed down, the pace of innovation in softwaret tools will slow even further. As computers get put in more and more devices, and they start to have more powerful hardware, you'll get the same plug-together grunt coders writing the software in them and you'll see more and more devices crashing or being incompatible with one another. I hope enough people will get decent education or educate themselves such that we can continue to get similar reliability in our devices that we have now.
Thank goodness for open source communities and mentalities where we encourage each other to continue our own educations, whether formally or informally. If formal education kills off software engineering I think that it will live on in this grassroots/underground fashion and continue to thrive.
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