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The Death Of CS In Education?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the give-it-bawls-for-life-support dept.

JohnnyKimble writes "A provocatively titled article recently appeared in the 'Future of Computing' section of the British Computer Society website. 'The Death Of Computing' was written by a lecturer at De Montfort University in the UK, and considers the problem of falling interest in computer science courses in the UK and what needs to be done to encourage more students to take the courses." This ties in well with our discussion last night about Why Software is Hard.

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  1. Re:CS is forever, software/hardware is transient by Krakhan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're right. :) Two things I should have mentioned:

    1) I should have said in an asymptotic sense. That is, ignoring constant factors and lower order terms, as is customary when working with asymptotic notation. What sort you'll actually use depends on your data, machine architecture, problem domain, etc.

    2) Linear sorts are awesome if you can use them effectively. However, that only works if you can make such reasonable assumptions about your data set. Comparison based sorts work very generally though, so long as you have some kind of total order induced on your data (basically, every item can be compared in some way).