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Sender: "Team Ada: Ada Advocacy Issues (83 & 95)" <[log in to unmask]>
X-To: "W. Wesley Groleau x4923" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:54:40 -0400
Reply-To: Michael Feldman <[log in to unmask]>
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In-Reply-To: <no.id> from "W. Wesley Groleau x4923" at Jun 15, 2001 01:52:08 PM
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[said Wes]
>
> > CS education has always been fraught with debate over what to teach,
> > and - more to the point - in what order to teach it. After 26 years of
>
> How many educators does it take to change a light bulb?
>
> One to turn the bulb, but at least two others to offer unsolicited and
> mutually contradictory critiques of the methodology,
>
> The original said "language teachers" (Earl W. Stevick, Memory, Meaning,
> and Method, 2nd Ed.,1996) but it applies pretty well to education--and
> software engineering--in general, doesn't it?
>
> --
> Wes Groleau
> http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau
>
Well put, Wes. I agree 100%.

Mike

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