On the Cruelty Of Really Teaching Computer Science[pdf]

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3 pointsTyr422 comments

Good penmanship, by the way (date: 1988). Do young kids today get to practice their handwriting much?

Good stuff so far: "By evoking the need for deep conceptual hierarchies, the automatic computer confronts us with a radically new intellectual challenge that has no precedent in our history."

We still do, for now. But I can see the transition coming in one or two people eschewing handwriting for laptops in eachof my classes at the high school level.

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