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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