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On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988)
The second part of this talk pursues some of the scientific and educational consequences of the assumption that computers represent a radical novelty. In order to give this assumption clear contents, we have to be much more precise as to what we mean in this context by the adjective "radical". We shall do so in the…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Aug 19, 2024 | On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988) by torstenvl | 168 | 136 |
| Feb 5, 2012 | On the cruelty of really teaching computing science by VMG | 78 | 31 |
| Jul 28, 2015 | On the cruelty of really teaching computer science (1988) by hacktheplanets | 59 | 23 |
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