Anyone Squeaking at ACM SIGCSE?
Les Tyrrell
tyrrell at iserve11.lis.uiuc.edu
Mon Nov 5 04:16:23 UTC 2001
From: Mark Guzdial <guzdial at cc.gatech.edu>
> - Fourth reviewer killed it with 2/6. "I am not sure where this
> material would be incorporated in a typical CS curriculum. " He
> didn't like the idea of teaching a "specialized language" (Squeak)
> nor of teaching "computer professionals how to _generate_ music" --
> he says that they should just use "recordings."
>
> The lesson for me is that the hardcore CS educator is harder to sell
> than I realized. I'm hoping that some others fared better -- anyone?
You should have called it a daring exploration of using "Java without Types".
But then that would be cynical...
- les
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