no_defun_allowed

no_defun_allowed wrote

Reply to teaching CS: many shallow analogies or few deep analogies? by twovests

few deep ones i suppose, but trying to relate patterns or paradigms to irl stuff usually goes badly so make sure they're solid too

Computer science is a terrible name for this business. First of all, it’s not a science. It might be engineering or it might be art, but we’ll actually see that computer so-called science actually has a lot in common with magic... So it’s not a science. It’s also not really very much about computers. And it’s not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not really about microscopes and petri dishes. And it’s not about computers in the same sense that geometry is not really about using surveying instruments.

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