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Article #269Re: um, maybe this is a silly question
From: Ken Kahn
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:53
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:53
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Brian says: So "things that are very important for a programmer to understand" are entirely beside the point in talking about how KIDS might learn to program. They can learn all that technical stuff in college, if they choose to study CS. I'd like to understand this better. My feeling is that the good stuff in Computer Science is like the "Total Turtle Trip Theorem". General/abstract knowledge that can be profitably applied when trying to build a program. I'll admit that much of CS is concerned with efficiency -- algorithms and understanding how interpreters/compilers/operating systems, etc. work -- and maybe most of the things kids do (and want to do?) are not constrained by execution speed or memory usage. I dunno. -ken
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.logo Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!morrow.stanford.edu!Csli!kahn From: kahn@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Ken Kahn) Subject: Re: um, maybe this is a silly question In-Reply-To: bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU's message of 14 Oct 1992 18: 32:08 GMT Message-ID: <1992Oct15.165322.682@Csli.Stanford.EDU> Organization: Stanford University CSLI References: <1992Oct13.144544.18182@sctc.com> <92Oct14.032327.23449@acs.ucalgary.ca> <BRENT.92Oct14134651@amber.ssd.csd.harris.com> <1bhp38INN2qv@agate.berkeley.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:53:22 GMT Lines: 15