DocumentCode
69726
Title
To Code or Not to Code, That Is the Question
Author
Booch, Grady
Volume
31
Issue
5
fYear
2014
fDate
Sept.-Oct. 2014
Firstpage
9
Lastpage
11
Abstract
There have been many periods in the unfolding of human history when we have asserted that it was possible to catalog all that was known or that could be known. Ignoring the pragmatic reality of trying to catalog an ever-expanding corpus, one must understand that such a task is further complicated by cultural and situational bias: what is important to know at one place and time is not necessary important in another. So it is with our present day; this raises the question, what must a functioning member of society know about computing? The Web extra at http://youtu.be/PjR6GqobTBo is an audio podcast of author Grady Booch reading his On Computing column, in which he discusses how much a functioning member of society today should know about computing.
Keywords
computer science education; encoding; programming; Internet; code; coding teaching; computing; programming; computational thinking; history; information; knowledge; programming; software engineering;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Software, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0740-7459
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MS.2014.128
Filename
6898799
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