Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site abnjh.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!mhuxl!abnjh!cbspt002 From: cbspt002@abnjh.UUCP (Marc E. Kenig ) Newsgroups: net.lang Subject: Re: Re: Teaching programming - aaack Message-ID: <697@abnjh.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 15:48:12 EDT Article-I.D.: abnjh.697 Posted: Wed Jun 20 15:48:12 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 07:44:34 EDT References: <678@abnjh.UUCP>, <554@opus.UUCP> Organization: ATTIS, NJ Lines: 20 <(*RSET NIL)> Dick Dunn (opus!rld) wrote: >...[Teach programmers to think like computer scientists] and then we'll >never have enough programmers... It has been my experience in (*yuch*) 'the computer and dp industry' that many so-called coders have little or no circumspection or (to rob from D. Knuth) art to what they are doing. By analogy any monkey could be taught to solve differential equations or minimize circuits by wrote. However, to be genuinely creative requires background and a developed ability to intuit an elegant solution. Else all you get is pretty shitty code cranked out by somebody who doesn't care and doesn't appreciate the overall quality and elegance (there's that word again!) of the program or system that is developed. Which, I believe, results in inefficiency and in a need for more programmers which leads to a shortage of 'coders'. Catch-22! Oh no! I'm beginning to sound like Edgar Dijkstra!:-) M. Kenig ...abnjh!cbspt002 (for another month or so...)