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On the necessity of removing 'cruelty' from the teaching of computing

dc.contributor.authorClear, Tony
dc.date.accessioned2009-05-27T22:14:30Z
dc.date.available2009-05-27T22:14:30Z
dc.date.copyright2006
dc.date.created2006
dc.date.issued2006
dc.description.abstractIn his famous article [1] Edsger Dijkstra reflected upon how cruel it would be truly to teach computer science. For some reason the CS community over the years have taken the sadistic element of his entreaties to heart. Why is this so? Does it have intuitive appeal to those CS educators who believe in the "hard man" school of computer science and the "real programmers don't eat quiche" model of education?
dc.identifier.doi10.1145/1138403.1138409
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/577
dc.publisherACM
dc.rights© ACM, 2006. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution.
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.sourceACM SIGCSE Bulletin - Inroads, 38, 2, 8-10
dc.titleOn the necessity of removing 'cruelty' from the teaching of computing
dc.typeJournal Article

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