"[...] who argues the up-or-out, one-size-fits-all rigid pace approach to learning set by teachers and administrators is as absurd as telling a toddler, 'You have ten weeks to walk'"
" I believe that expecting a student to learn to program well enough to study Computer Science in a single 15-week course is almost as absurd as expecting a student with no instrumental musical experience to be ready to join the university orchestra after 15 weeks"
Jesus Christ, how long did it take them to make up those analogies?!?! They seriously suck!
Yes of course. Lets give every CS student as much attention as a toddler, that sounds practical. We can have individual courses for every single student.
And yes, joining the university orchestra is entirely on par with being expected to program well, WTF?
15 weeks is a _lot_ of time to learn the basics in programming. Come on, they are not expected to be able to design they most beautiful architectures or code extremely efficient. This sounds like a lot of exaggeration.
Oh and he mentions BlueJ. Why the hell are they not using that already? I mean, *duh, of course BlueJ/Greenfoot is the best way to learn OO, you cannot teach a CS introductory course without a tool like that.
Makes you wonder why the hell they didn't encrypt their phone conversations...
I mean ffs, he worked at IBM, it's not like they didn't have access to that kind of technology.
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"[...] who argues the up-or-out, one-size-fits-all rigid pace approach to learning set by teachers and administrators is as absurd as telling a toddler, 'You have ten weeks to walk'" " I believe that expecting a student to learn to program well enough to study Computer Science in a single 15-week course is almost as absurd as expecting a student with no instrumental musical experience to be ready to join the university orchestra after 15 weeks" Jesus Christ, how long did it take them to make up those analogies?!?! They seriously suck! Yes of course. Lets give every CS student as much attention as a toddler, that sounds practical. We can have individual courses for every single student. And yes, joining the university orchestra is entirely on par with being expected to program well, WTF? 15 weeks is a _lot_ of time to learn the basics in programming. Come on, they are not expected to be able to design they most beautiful architectures or code extremely efficient. This sounds like a lot of exaggeration. Oh and he mentions BlueJ. Why the hell are they not using that already? I mean, *duh, of course BlueJ/Greenfoot is the best way to learn OO, you cannot teach a CS introductory course without a tool like that.
I mean seriously. What the hell is this good for anyways?
I wonder what the power consumption of a monster like this is.
Yeah... I'm gonna have to call bullshit on this one. That outcast is way beyond the capability of the climatemodels we have today.
Makes you wonder why the hell they didn't encrypt their phone conversations... I mean ffs, he worked at IBM, it's not like they didn't have access to that kind of technology.