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by Cybotron5000
1808 days ago
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Ooft …’trendiness’/hype to blame…(for want of a better way of describing it - nothing against trendiness per se… :) …short-sighted also as technology moves so fast and what garnered the highest salaries in this generation could easily change in the next… (esp. if over-subscribed)… I teach guitar/bass/music production (though trying to slowly educate myself about CS as much as I can), but I get what you’re saying about learning basics - you can go blue in the face trying to explain to someone that if they learnt eg. basic harmony or acoustics or how MIDI works etc etc that they would understand eg. how to make any style of music they happen to like potentially more quickly/effectively, or that instead of learning eg. only specific interfaces/ individual siloed DAWs/platforms, they would see that they all work on basically the same underlying principles and be able to pick up and use any they wish from then on/make their own… (…counter to a lot of ‘magic’ marketing speak/youtube vids etc…). Perhaps as CS ideas become more widely used/diffused/familiar to teachers/practitioners of all other subjects, and indeed programming etc. potentially becomes ‘higher level’/more abstracted/built on specialised API’s/libraries/AI/autocomplete/visual paradigms etc. those subjects will incorporate the teaching of CS/programming/AI and eg. biology will inevitably integrate teaching of what might at the moment be called ‘computational biology’, or literature will incorporate analysis of texts using AI as a standard component of the course etc. etc.? …that might then free your dept. to focus on core concepts/constructing the underlying platforms that all these other subjects use as a base? all the best! (good article btw.) |
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I think you're spot on here. You don't see people flocking to the English department because they had heard the ability to read and write is essential to landing a high paying job.
The same will be true for programming in the future; programming will be to the CS curriculum as reading and writing is to the English curriculum. No one is teaching English majors how to read and write English at my university. But we have 4 semesters devoted to reading and writing programs, because we can't assume any student knows these things like the English department can.