alt Hacker NewsIn university? No, absolutely not straight away.
The point of a CS degree is to know the fundamentals of computing, not the latest best practices in programming that abstract the fundamentals.
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jurf • yesterday at 7:49 AM
My university also taught best practices alongside that, everytime. I am very grateful for that.
Absolutely the wrong take. You can teach CS with just pencil and paper, but that doesn’t advance the technology, it might only benefit academia in a narrow sense. CS students should be actively engineering software in addition to doing science.