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Bruce F. Webster's avatar

Let me give you a heartening counter-example. I teach CS 428 (“real-world software engineering”) at Brigham Young University and have been doing so for six years. It’s an elective class, not required, but I get anywhere from 30 to 80 computer science seniors each semester, fall and winter. I teach it as a ‘survival’ course to prepare them to work in the real world. I have them read some classic works in the field, as well as some of my own posts and articles, and I tell them lots of stories from my industry experience verifying all the things they read.

Oh, and I turn 70 next month. That “industry experience” spans almost 50 years.

The CS department has already asked me to teach this coming fall and winter as well. I’m happy to keep doing it as long as I can, because I’m passionate about the subject, and because I keep getting emails from former students that say, “It’s true. Everything you said is true.” 🤣

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Bill McLane's avatar

This is the best of your Substack posts that I have read. It could very easily be turned into a head-turning book. But does anyone read books these days? Am I the last?

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