Re: Is Programming Obsolete?

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.