Wrong Way?

[alvesjnr]

Hi all,

I'm a computer engineer that have lots of interest about math and physics topics.

I always was concerned about the way that things works on school/college on the relationship among theory and pratic. How does it works (on most of the cases) today: You go to the physics lectures, learn a lot about theory and formulas, and so, you go to the lab and check the "theory working"(bullshit!).

The point is: It's not natural. For milleniuns the man first observed some event on the nature and then tryied to figure out "why" and "how" it happens. It's not natural to first get the theory and then look to the action. You should first see something happening, something that dispert some curiosity, and then, moved by this curiosity, you should try to understand it (whatever does it mean).

My question here is: does it apply also to computer science and programming, or it only makes sense on physics, biology, chemestry ... ?