Mark Guzdial at ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) writes:
I have three reasons for thinking that learning CS is different than learning other STEM disciplines.
- Our infrastructure for teaching CS is younger, smaller, and weaker;
- We don't realize how hard learning to program is;
- CS is so valuable that it changes the affective components of learning.
The author makes compelling arguments to support the claims, ending with:
We are increasingly finding that the emotional component of learning computing (e.g., motivation, feeling of belonging, self-efficacy) is among the most critical variables. When you put more and more students in a high-pressure, competitive setting, and some of whom feel "like" the teacher and some don't, you get emotional complexity that is unlike any other STEM discipline. Not mathematics, any of the sciences, or any of the engineering disciplines are facing growing numbers of majors and non-majors at the same time. That makes learning CS different and harder.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Crash on Wednesday January 10 2018, @10:01PM (4 children)
The wife, to this day will still ask me opposing "OR" questions.
"Do you want to go see a movie? Or stay home tonight?"
"Yes."
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday January 10 2018, @10:12PM (1 child)
Are you Greedy or Lazy ?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday January 10 2018, @10:28PM
Just async
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @10:31PM
I do the same exact thing to my wife LOL
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @09:48AM
That's why there are so few female programmers.