After reading A Red Flag in the Brain Game I started reflecting on my schooling. From my experience Universities are going soft on CS students. In the first two years of undergraduate classes we play with Legos and Java instead of working on hard problems. And even senior level courses are soft: in Computer Architecture we have spent the first three weeks explaining key concepts of computer architecture that every C programmer must be aware of to create working code. Oh, and how many times must I listen to a lecture on binary arithmetic?!
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Amen!
Specifically, I’ve been taught binary arithmetic 3 different times before even coming to OSU (one of them being ECE271, which I took elsewhere).
At some point, the out of class reading needs to be “know binary” and let the kids fill the gaps where needed.
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