C++ Creator Speaking On Computer Science Programs

[Will Shattuck]

As one who was a music major in the late 1980s and went into teaching
Music, I find this interesting. Bjorn was a programmer before
becoming teaching so he brings a lot of Real World experience with
him. That is one thing I wish I had in my teaching program. Student
Teaching is good, but nothing helps more than "trial by fire".

Not being a programmer at all, and doing nothing with programming
since Apple Basic in the 1980s I'm not an authority to comment on the
article. Again, just wanted to share something I found interesting and
others here might find interesting as well.

http://tinyurl.com/6bz6as
or
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/features/article.php/3789981/Bjarne+Stroustrup+on+Educating+Software+Developers.htm

Will

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[Thomas 'cmdln' Gideon]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Will Shattuck <willsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As one who was a music major in the late 1980s and went into teaching
> Music, I find this interesting. Bjorn was a programmer before
> becoming teaching so he brings a lot of Real World experience with
> him. That is one thing I wish I had in my teaching program. Student
> Teaching is good, but nothing helps more than "trial by fire".
>
> Not being a programmer at all, and doing nothing with programming
> since Apple Basic in the 1980s I'm not an authority to comment on the
> article. Again, just wanted to share something I found interesting and
> others here might find interesting as well.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/6bz6as
> or
> http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/features/article.php/3789981/Bjarne+Stroustrup+on+Educating+Software+Developers.htm

I came across this article in my past week of reading for the show,
too. What I really enjoyed most about it was his emphasis on
pragmatics in the workplace, even if it may subtly reinforce some of
the undeserved criticism of pure academics I've seen in past years.

An acquaintance once remarked to me that when he got his CS degree, it
equipped him to start his on the job learning, in a sense learning how
to learn new skills and languages. Now, and I think this is where
Stroustrup's critique of Java actually figures in, many programs seem
to be teaching the end skills they think graduates will need at the
expense of core skills that transcend language and library choice.

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