On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Mark Engelberg <[email protected]> wrote:
< ... > > I think it's pretty easy to interpret this article as saying that the women > couldn't hack it until it was replaced with something light and fluffy with > fewer sharp edges. Nowhere does it indicate that students are learning just > as much, or that this change in approach benefits all students, not just the > women. Are we elevating the quality of our computer science graduates, or > just lowering the definition of what that means? Without addressing these > questions, I fear this article does more harm than good. > Yes, that's exactly the context in which the article was being cited in the thread I got it from: more evidence of dumbing down. The implicit assumption is then that Python is watered down pabulum while Java is for real non-quiche eating men or something. I got into sparring with the guy pushing that interpretation. http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=7760263 (there's a tree view of our discussion commenting on the article -- ongoing) Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
