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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."
As evidenced by the varied computer-related programming on MTV:
Real Programming
Code Rules
Cyberpunked
etc
It's obvious that kids today have a healthy interest in computer programming.
I'm a big tall mofo.
For Johnny is no more,
For what he thought was H2O,
Was H2SO4.
If only he had gone into CS instead of Chem...
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
Yes all Americans care about are athletics and sports, which is why they are all fat. Can't someone pick a stereotype that fits all Americans?!?
"I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator"-Adolf Hitler or George W Bush?
The opinion expressed by you makes it seem like you are a little young (apologies if I am making the wrong assumption).
The reason I see that is because you are thinking with an 18 year old mentality. Priorities shift drastically the older you get. When you get into college, the playing field is quite different. You slowly grow to understand that noone gives a rats ass about sports, and the professors will just as soon kick you out of school than they would smile at you (the beauty of tenure).
But see, college is just different. People actually have to pay to go to school, for one thing, as opposed to being crammed in with hundreds of other walking hormones. You actually have to work to stay there.
I'm not sure about your high school, but mine gave far more scholorships to the students that had the highest grades (coupled with SATs). Think about it, it is in the college's best interest to give scholarships to students that will actually be able to *pass* their classes and not get kicked out.
I don't know, I may be ranting, but seriously... your post really does sound like a jealous high school kid. College is an entirely different setting, with the priority to succeed outweighing pretty much everything else...
oh, and getting laid. Thats important too.
...and drunk...you know, because you are away from home for the first time, and stuff.
*long pause*
Did I just prove his point?
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Well, then it seems pretty clear to me that they need to start funding more crystal ball startups.
>> our short attention span kicks in and we
I'm sorry. I missed the first part of your comment. I looked kind of long and had words and stuff, so I skipped to the end. What were you saying?
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Why don't you give Esperanto a try?
Tell ya what, give me 12 kids who have been properly trained as computer scientists and love the field, six theorists and six empiricists, none of whom know a lick of "practical" programming, and just enough capital to set up shop with workbenchs from Sears and computers cobbled together from odd parts, but not enough to hand out free Ferraris to everybody, and in five years the 13 of us will knock all of China on its arse.
I can tell you exactly what your 12 kids will produce: specifications for LISP, Smalltalk, and Haskell, with patents on all the most critical ideas and an IDE that runs only on Longhorn that costs $50,000 per seat.
You don't have a Ph.D. because you don't know how to use apostrophes.
What color is your ferrari
Which one?