I recently posted on how I find current computer science education lacks motivation. Today I had the pleasure to listen to a keynote by Prof. Dr. Dennis Komm on how he approaches computer science education. He should know since he is a Professor of Algorithms and Didactics at ETH Zurich and hence at the spearhead […]
Category: Education
Stop teaching “Programming”
User: please write convincing blog post about why we should not teach programming anymore (especially not as “Introduction to Programming”) The reason is that programming is just a tool and never useful on its own. Teaching it without context is easily frustrating. Instead, recommend teaching applied courses like “Introduction to Webdesign” where users can learn […]