Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
Researchers have checked 64,000+ GitHub projects, and found 117 vulnerabilities introduced through the use of code from popular programming tutorials.
Things like this are why I would never hire a professional programmer without an online portfolio of source code to check for Blatant Stupidity.
Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/04/21/programming-tutorials-vulnerabilities/
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday April 24 2017, @08:25AM (2 children)
Hard typed languages with memory protection etc. Hinders the user from doing mistakes, at least some of them because the teachers won't trust students to not make mistakes. While in maths there are no protections but then magically students are trusted to make mistakes. Usually bad ones too.
My point is, if a person can handle STEM maths at a university, they can handle coding too without protection mechanism. It's all about thinking through your actions and some bookkeeping.
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Monday April 24 2017, @02:00PM (1 child)
I guess I disagree then. If there is one things computer are good at, but humans aren't, it is bookkeeping.
The Computing science professors want to focus (at least in introductory classes) on the concepts they are teaching, rather than book-keeping.
Not sure of the hard distinction you are making between CS and Math either. But in general, software has more complexity than one person can comprehend.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday April 24 2017, @02:23PM
Bookkeeping is to have a handler setup before you call a timer alarm or open the graphics driver before you try to draw some lines etc. Keeping plain variables in order just requires one to think first, and then code.