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Weblog:   What would you put in a Computer Science Curriculum?
Subject:   The problem is in the basics
Date:   2005-09-11 09:06:19
From:   tvf@beret.com
The biggest need today (be it CS or software engineering) is to teach people how to read a program so that they can fix, utilize, or otherwise work with an existing piece of software.


I think that we need to start off teaching people how to understand programs before they learn how to write them. I would start off with an "Introduction to Programs" that presents basics of program execution and basic structural constructs but NO programming. I would then have some form of "Introduction to Programming" which would build upon this base to teach students how to use what they learned in the previous course to constuct a program.

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  • The problem is in the basics
    2005-09-11 13:18:06  snap [View]

    they DO do this in at least some programs...

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