Johnny Can So Program

theodp writes "In Johnny Can So Program, CS Prof Norm Matloff calls BS on CNET stories like Can Johnny Still Program? and Can the U.S. Still Compete?, saying it's a shame that CNET fails to cover the real threat to American technological competitiveness, the hidden agendas of Chicken Littles like Jim Foley of the Computing Research Association, David Patterson of the ACM and former Intel CEO Craig Barrett, all of whose organizations have a vested interest in playing the education card."

Comments

Re:United States - 0 South East Asia : 1

[the_2nd_coming]

umm.. dude... that is probably the dumbest crap I have ever read.

Ignorance - 1, Knowledge - 0?

[Savage-Rabbit]

Sports are important in pratically every country and always get more attention then scientific achievment.

And that is a good thing? A few decades ago national pride was measured just as much in scientific and technological achievement as it was in terms of sports. These days two teams of steroid popping gorillas fighting each other over a leather ball seem to get more attention than, say, milestones in interplanetary exploration and in my book that is a sign of intellectual degeneration. Lack of interest in Science and general intellectual apathy among the population is what allows bible thumping morons to delete evolutionary theory from the science curriculum . I'm still having a hard time believing such a debate can take place in one of the worlds most advanced nations at the beginning of the 21'st century

Re:and that's the problem

[b17bmbr]

1) typo. supposed to be inextricably linked. makes better sense.

2) you obviously do not know the meaning of the word education.

3) cultural relativists are destroying our society. i don't suppose you'll get much empirical history at most universities, where determinism is the rule of the day. but the therapeutic, anti-western, relativist, pseudo-intellectaul fill-in-the-blank studies majors don't believe in anything other than rampant nihilism.

congrats. when the barbarians come knocking at your door, you try to logic with mustafa. tell him he needs anger management, that it's okay that he feels oppressed, that you feel his pain. but do it before he saws your head off in front of a camera. tell yourself that his clerical medievalism is "just his culture". of course do it before the blood drains from your body and you're a lifeless mass. and then in your last breath, wonder where the notion of civic militarism went, why the hopllite, the centurion, the mintueman, the GI, hasn't come to save your sorry ass. he was too busy being indoctrinated in sensitivty training to hate the enemy, to want to kill him.

cheers.