[DHPersonal]

I only learn when I do things, not when I hear how they work. I think the teacher has the right idea.

[H1Supreme]

A million percent! I was so bad at Math in school. Which I primarily blame on the arbitrary way in which we were taught it. It wasn't until I was able to apply it to solving actual problems that it clicked.

[moritzruth]

Yes, I do too, but the point they were trying to make is that "learning how to write code" is not the point of CS education, but only a side effect.

[thfuran]

A huge portion of the students in CS do intend the study precisely for writing code and the CS itself is more of a side effect.

[Attrecomet]

Which is a pretty big failure of somewhere in the education pipeline -- don't expect a science program to do what a trade is there for! (to be clear, I'm not trying to say the students are wrong in choosing CS in order to get a good coding job, but somewhere, expectations and reality are misaligned here. Perhaps with companies trying to outsource their training to universities while complaining that the training isn't spot-on for what they need?)