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[Chipp Walters]

Alex,

I couldn't agree with you more. As one who has hired many programmers, I 
think an understanding of GUI and Human Interface Design definitely 
helps persuade me of a candidates potential. I think Judy specifically 
states both of these as goals for her course.

Furthermore, teaching 'top-down' design also helps programmers 
understand more about interface design along with program work flow-- 
and we all know, Rev is a 'top-down' type environment.

I hadn't checked on Paul Graham's articles lately and your link reminded 
me. He also has a great article about 'Great Hackers' which I think is a 
must read for aspiring programmers (Judy, you might take note).

It's at:

http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html

best,

Chipp

Alex Tweedly wrote:

> They're undergrads in a CS degree course.  They're not in a six-month 
> vocational course to teach them to program. They should be getting an 
> education to set them up for 20+ years in computing and computational 
> science - not just to help them find their first job.
> 
> A CS degree should (IMO) contain at least as much theory of computation, 
> as much algorithm and program design issues, as much GUI considerations, 
> as much .... etc. as it does how to write programs in this year's or 
> this decade's fashionable language.
> 
> Of course, I say this in my role as crusty old man who still thinks that 
> the most useful course he did in high school was Latin, and the most 
> useful in undergrad was Logic and Philosophy of Science :-)