20 Oct
1998
20 Oct
'98
10:58 p.m.
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
Heck, even learn assembly to boot! My biggest gripe
about how CS is
taught these days is that they start out with the latest and greatest and
tend to forget the history. No other field is taught that way.
Some of us are here as products of modern CS programs who have figured out
that we missed something valuable and interesting...
To be fair, they left all the "latest/greatest" stuff like Visual
Developer/Java and taught us things like binary multiplication, boolean
algebra, etc. before anything else. I'm finding it to be an excellent
jumping-off point for actually starting to learn about *computers*...