Re: Is Programming Obsolete?

On Sun, 12 May 2024, Scott Dorsey wrote:

In article <slrnv15e4i.rk6.bencollver@svadhyaya.localdomain>,
Ben Collver  <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote:

Is Programming Obsolete?
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Brian Harvey
University of California, Berkeley

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If you don't teach basic programming, you can't teach students what a
computer actually is.
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If you don't teach assembler, you can't teach students how a computer
actually works.
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You don't need to teach a fancy programming language or a giant assembler.
You don't even need to teach ones that are used in the real world because
the point isn't to give the student a marketable skill but to give him the
background where he can understand what a computer is and what it does.
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You will find people in the IT community don't think teaching any of this
stuff is important, in part because they don't know what a computer is or
what it does.
--scott
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Let me add another perspective. Companies, influecing course programs, don't want to waste time on fundamentals. They want programmers who can do one nieche thing fast, as fast as possible, so no time to focus on the basics.