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from the does-it-count-as-a-foreign-language dept.
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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @12:35AM (1 child)
There was an old fortune quote "deep hack mode, that place where mere mortals fear to tread".
I developed an interest in computers because I'm an introvert, rare to find an extrovert who'd enjoy locking themselves away in a dark room for a weekend to play with a new language. Is it that CS used to be a self selecting group, then people who aren't naturally drawn to the subject were drawn to the degree and careers?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @05:44AM
The tech purge is complete and the nerds are replaced by the tech bros.
The tech bros are extroverted social climbers and they don't spend long weekends learning anything. Extroverts don't need to learn. Tech bros drop questions on stack overflow and expect to be given answers by the same unemployed introverts who they replaced because unemployable losers obviously have nothing better to do.
Introverts who are foolish enough to waste their lives getting degrees will never, ever, ever find careers in tech. They can learn whatever they want but they will never get paid. They will die lonely deaths in their isolated dark rooms.