But wait, their’s more! What has changed in the last 30+ years is that computer science is now also a social science, and probably a statistical one. Maybe they will fix that in a decade or too :).
Who of you had posted that?
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Anonymous2009-05-11 3:21
So, a committee (here, Prof. the Sussman peaked his hands over his head, which I interpreted to indicated pointy-headedness)
>>9
That article gives me the feeling that it's for practical reasons i.e. to teach how to do day-to-day (boring) programming with a buggy library.
(And, of course, M.I.T. does teach classic software engineering, later in the curriculum.)
See? They want to teach basic and practical stuff first and leave the best bits for later.
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Anonymous2009-05-11 16:18
Great SICP, reveal to us the will of Sussman, so that we may blindly obey!
Free us from thought and responsibility!
We shall read things off you!
Then do them!
Your words guide us!
We're dumb!
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Anonymous2009-05-11 20:14
SICP is still the best.
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Anonymous2009-05-11 20:15
this 'science of programming' bullshit is utter trash. I know programming isn't science, it's closer to mathematics, but it's still different from that.
>>22
I would have taken this troll more seriously if the author of said troll had used proper English.
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Anonymous2009-05-11 21:22
>>4
I'm curious to know what university this is. Since MIT is being shortsighted and gave up on SICP, I might as well look to a different university for SICP related study.
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Anonymous2009-05-11 21:24
>>24
Well, you're certainly one to talk about proper English.
As pure as scheme is it's horribly out dated for today's cs courses. Even the Sussman said it himself. Learning scheme won't be nearly as useful as learning another more useful language in today's world, whether you like it or not.
ah fuck ihbt
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Anonymous2009-05-11 21:44
>>27
Now let me first just say that I have been trolled by replying. Second, that is complete bullshit, because even lectures from the 1960's are still relevant today. MIT are just being a bunch of pansies by pandering to the "Heh, people out there are shitty programmers with shitty programs with shitty (or non-existent) manual pages, so let's just give up teaching a class that has been taught for over a quarter-century and replace it with ENTERPRISE QUALITY bullshit, because the industry no longer cares about educating people properly anymore."
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Anonymous2009-05-11 22:50
ITT: Basement dwelling losers think they know better than MIT professors.
>>33
How about this for a rebuke: SICP is 25 years old, and the comp. sci. community can't possibly be collectively unoriginal enough not to have improved on it in that time.
Name one other science that still uses 25 year old textbooks on a regular basis.