No one is talking about the loss to everyone else in the world (and MIT students) that this situation has caused.
I took 8.02 with Professor Lewin when I was at MIT. Before that class I despised physics in every way but Professor Lewin changed my views. He was one of my most gifted professors at MIT (and that's saying something).
While I understand MIT needs to discipline him, taking his emeritus title and removing all of his courseware from MOOC is a HUGE loss to the world as a whole.
If this girl had come forward when this all began, more than likely this would have been a much smaller issue that would have warranted less of a dramatic result. I'm not blaming the victim in this case, I'm just saying that MIT could have handled this much better.
I find your comments distasteful as I find all the other comments that disparage all frameworks. I will definitely say "Flavor of the month" frameworks are a dime a dozen and are nearly useless, however there are MANY very well accepted frameworks that increase the speed of development (and in turn the modularity and maintainability of the code).
Have you tried to write a dynamic website without jQuery (or an equivalent)? If you say "I don't need it", then you're just ignorant or inefficient. Have you tried to build a large scale java application without Maven (or an equivalent)? How about create a RESTful web service without any framework (there are many options though for Java I prefer JAX-RS and reference implementation)?
Have you ever had to maintain someone else's application? The more industry accepted frameworks they used, the easier it is to understand what they were trying to achieve and how they did it. If you have to read tens of thousands of lines of code to process an HTTP request, you'll never be able to manage it.
There is a huge difference between a physics engine in a game and an enterprise transaction engine or a business process engine used to manage 100,000s of financial transactions.
I'm really sick and tired of all the embedded systems or games developers or with old C guys who think it's the solution to everything trying to make these vast generalizations about what is viable in the world of development. Not all development is about the speed or efficiency of the code. Much of it is about maintainability and modularity and without frameworks that can be nearly impossible.
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I took 8.02 with Professor Lewin when I was at MIT. Before that class I despised physics in every way but Professor Lewin changed my views. He was one of my most gifted professors at MIT (and that's saying something).
While I understand MIT needs to discipline him, taking his emeritus title and removing all of his courseware from MOOC is a HUGE loss to the world as a whole.
If this girl had come forward when this all began, more than likely this would have been a much smaller issue that would have warranted less of a dramatic result. I'm not blaming the victim in this case, I'm just saying that MIT could have handled this much better.
I find your comments distasteful as I find all the other comments that disparage all frameworks. I will definitely say "Flavor of the month" frameworks are a dime a dozen and are nearly useless, however there are MANY very well accepted frameworks that increase the speed of development (and in turn the modularity and maintainability of the code). Have you tried to write a dynamic website without jQuery (or an equivalent)? If you say "I don't need it", then you're just ignorant or inefficient. Have you tried to build a large scale java application without Maven (or an equivalent)? How about create a RESTful web service without any framework (there are many options though for Java I prefer JAX-RS and reference implementation)? Have you ever had to maintain someone else's application? The more industry accepted frameworks they used, the easier it is to understand what they were trying to achieve and how they did it. If you have to read tens of thousands of lines of code to process an HTTP request, you'll never be able to manage it. There is a huge difference between a physics engine in a game and an enterprise transaction engine or a business process engine used to manage 100,000s of financial transactions. I'm really sick and tired of all the embedded systems or games developers or with old C guys who think it's the solution to everything trying to make these vast generalizations about what is viable in the world of development. Not all development is about the speed or efficiency of the code. Much of it is about maintainability and modularity and without frameworks that can be nearly impossible.