Comments on: Italian, Latin lit, French lit, and Computer Science http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/1466.html Data is ones and zeroes | Software is ones and zeroes and hard work. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Serguei http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/1466.html#comment-1588 Serguei Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:37:43 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/1466.html#comment-1588 But it retires in a good company, though! But it retires in a good company, though!

]]> By: Alan Fekete http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/1466.html#comment-1587 Alan Fekete Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:14:54 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/1466.html#comment-1587 See the discussion at http://usacm.acm.org/usacm/weblog/index.php?p=593 which points out that while losing one AP CS course is a blow, this doesn't mean there won't be any AP CS available (the much larger alternative course will remain) See the discussion at http://usacm.acm.org/usacm/weblog/index.php?p=593
which points out that while losing one AP CS course is a blow, this doesn’t mean there won’t be any AP CS available (the much larger alternative course will remain)

]]> By: amk http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/1466.html#comment-1586 amk Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:50:44 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/1466.html#comment-1586 I found a weblog entry by a high school CS teacher that discusses this in more detail, at http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/04/04/college-board-to-discontinue-the-ap-cs-ab-exam.aspx. Apparently there are two secondary-level CS exams, and one of them is being terminated. I found a weblog entry by a high school CS teacher that discusses this in more detail, at http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/04/04/college-board-to-discontinue-the-ap-cs-ab-exam.aspx.

Apparently there are two secondary-level CS exams, and one of them is being terminated.

]]> By: Guillaume Theoret http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/1466.html#comment-1585 Guillaume Theoret Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:35:15 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/1466.html#comment-1585 I don't get it. They mentioned computer science once in the title and once in the list in the article but then never talked about ever again. They even listed the number of enrolled students for each of the other but not for CS. They interviewed people about the languages stuff but not CS. Even the journalist writing the article didn't care enough about that AP program? I don’t get it. They mentioned computer science once in the title and once in the list in the article but then never talked about ever again. They even listed the number of enrolled students for each of the other but not for CS. They interviewed people about the languages stuff but not CS. Even the journalist writing the article didn’t care enough about that AP program?

]]> By: sam http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/1466.html#comment-1584 sam Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:58:52 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/1466.html#comment-1584 Because all of those subjects are useless in today's job market. Italian and French will probably be as dead as Latin pretty soon. Computer science and science in general is no longer one of America's core competencies. Retail management is really all we do now. Can't they just start an advanced placement class in project management or "interpersonal skills?" That's what America's business leaders say we really need now. All that low level mundane stuff like engineering can be done so much more cheaply by low cost offshore providers, while we concentrate on more inportant, higher level tasks like party planning, cosmotology and landscaping (wait, forget the landscaping. We need to import Mexicans to live in poverty so they can do those jobs that we don't want.) Because all of those subjects are useless in today’s job market. Italian and French will probably be as dead as Latin pretty soon. Computer science and science in general is no longer one of America’s core competencies. Retail management is really all we do now. Can’t they just start an advanced placement class in project management or “interpersonal skills?” That’s what America’s business leaders say we really need now. All that low level mundane stuff like engineering can be done so much more cheaply by low cost offshore providers, while we concentrate on more inportant, higher level tasks like party planning, cosmotology and landscaping (wait, forget the landscaping. We need to import Mexicans to live in poverty so they can do those jobs that we don’t want.)

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