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: 5, Touché) by Anal Pumpernickel on Wednesday January 10 2018, @10:02PM (2 children)
And many of the future computer scientists are developing mass surveillance systems, digital restrictions management, and proprietary software.
(Score: 3, Touché) by krishnoid on Wednesday January 10 2018, @10:23PM (1 child)
If another computer scientist develops non-proprietary software, wouldn't you just use theirs instead of developing your own version, and then spend that time developing proprietary software?
(Score: 4, Funny) by Bot on Thursday January 11 2018, @01:14AM
> instead of developing your own version
Programmers do just that, sadly. Ask Poettering.
(uhhh sorry sysadmins for the acid reflux)
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