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+-   Twenty Years of Cruelty-> on Tuesday December 02 2008, @07:27AM WatersOfOblivion

Submitted by WatersOfOblivion on Tuesday December 02 2008, @07:27AM
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WatersOfOblivion writes "Twenty years ago today, Edsger Dijkstra, the greatest computer scientist to never own a computer, hand wrote and distributed "On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science", discussig the then current state of Computer Science education. Twenty years later, does what he said still hold true? I know it is not the case where I went to school, but have most schools corrected course and are now being necessarily cruel to their Computer Science students? If you could change one thing about education to make it more in line with Dijkstra's definition of "cruel", what would it be and why?"
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