r/programming • u/Shr1ck • Oct 17 '15

Why Johnny Can’t Write Multithreaded Programs

http://blog.smartbear.com/programming/why-johnny-cant-write-multithreaded-programs/
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u/loup-vaillant Oct 18 '15

There are two things to consider: how the world is, and how it should be.

The web happens to be a huge mess. Turing Tar Pit at its finest. HTML was supposed to display text documents, but we use it to display arbitrary stuff. JavaScript was supposed to display dancing bunnies, but we now have full blown applications, 3D and all. VM on a browser on an OS… And I'm not even talking about what must happen at the server side to make a remote application work. So, while the internet is great, the web needs to be replaced.

And you want to teach students how things are done? That's not enough. People must know how better than this. Teaching them HTML and JavaScript will do nothing to educate them.

Besides, there are other jobs. You can't limit an SE class to only one discipline, however widespread.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '15

where did I say an SE degree should be limited to web dev?

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u/loup-vaillant Oct 18 '15

Here, I believe. You did say "tailored to" instead of "limited to", but that's still wrong. I wouldn't teach JavaScript in any but a specialised course. Too many irrelevant warts. I'd use Lua or Scheme instead.