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Twenty Years of Dijkstra's Cruelty
WatersOfOblivion writes "Twenty years ago today, Edsger Dijkstra, the greatest computer scientist to never own a computer, hand wrote and distributed 'On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science' (PDF), discussing the then-current state of Computer Science education. Twenty years later, does what he said still hold true? I know it is not the case where I went to school, but have most schools corrected course and are now being necessarily cruel to their Computer Science students?" Bonus: Dijkstra's handwriting.
Wasn't Dijkstra the one who said "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes"? Great as he was, I'd say in the modern era he's part of the problem, i.e. CS programs producing students who know loads and loads of theory and can't write a damn line of actual code.