> My own experience is more toward the learning to program to learn - in my > case - mathematical ideas. But ultimately, to get to where I want to get, I > realize that "basic computational skills" are not sufficient - that I need > to get somewhat beyond the basics. I think that the linguist, or geneticist > might also find the same to be true - eventually. Where are those needs to > be services under current academic structures?
Those departments should fill those needs under current academic structures by offering the necessary computing courses. There's no shortage of people with practical computing skills --- just a shortage of people with impractical ones. :-) One thing CS departments could do is offer service-oriented software engineering courses. It's clear that many people nowadays learn to program on their own, and run into well-known difficulties once their programs get too big. Those people would probably appreciate and benefit from a software engineering course, especially if was platform/lanuage neutral. Toby -- Dr. Toby Donaldson School of Computing Science Simon Fraser University (Surrey) _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
