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by ghufran_syed
3798 days ago
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Do we really want to "reduce such a beautiful and meaningful art form to something so mindless and trivial[?]; no culture could be so cruel to its children as to deprive them of such a natural,satisfying means of human expression. How absurd!" - Lockhart [1]. He was talking about math, but I am sure the same results would occur with computer science "education" if done in high schools. "One of the best ways to stifle the growth of an idea is to enshrine it in an educational curriculum." - Hal Abelson[2] [1] https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....
[2] https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ssch0/foreword.html |
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I had "computer science" classes in middle school in France. They consisted of typing classes. I still remember sheets of "QSDF JKLM" or whatever it was that had to be typed x times before moving on to a slightly more complex pattern. I think the class was graded based on how far you got down the sheet by the end of the hour.