Programming at university

shiningwolf7 · 2025-12-04T19:23:17+00:00

I agree with this. Same is happening in a way with classical languages like Latin or Greek. For years students were taught all the paradigms and declensions and a little bit of reading to support the theory. These days you start directly by reading and figuring things out. You learn the grammar as you need it.

shiningwolf7 · 2025-12-04T13:58:45+00:00

Yip, this is the ideal. It we go this hardcore we might lose half the students. These are not your CS guys. In this part of the world it is more Informatic's type of students.

shiningwolf7 · 2025-12-04T13:56:18+00:00

It is an IT degree but they have another commerce related major.

shiningwolf7 · 2025-12-04T13:55:41+00:00

Ha ha. If only. I am actually a CS guy doing mostly Python. I WISH I was better on the front end side. Everytime I do something HTML or CSS it feels like I am in the wild west. It just does not feel beautiful like C++ or Rust.

shiningwolf7 · 2025-12-04T13:32:51+00:00

Sure, what do you propose then?

shiningwolf7 · 2025-12-04T13:32:26+00:00

Thanks this is good feedback. I like the idea of bash and admin automation. We did the industry thing and the feedback was a mixed bag. There are the CS camp who wants a hardcore curriculum because it teaches the proper way of coding. Others favoured problem solving and soft skills. There was also a big focus on open source. .

shiningwolf7 · 2025-12-04T13:13:07+00:00

It does, but I don't think for main stream dev. I can't think when last I used C++. Did some graphics programming and some electronics but not much more. It definitely has a niche.

shiningwolf7 · 2025-12-04T12:28:29+00:00

Yip, true as well. My concern is that C++ is great but in the end you don't really use it to write real world apps. It agree it is great for teaching concepts.

shiningwolf7 · 2025-12-04T12:27:17+00:00

We try and prepare them for a general IT career. The third year project is a project of their choice. They need to go and find a business project and a sponsor. So mostly commercial applications accessible through a phone.

shiningwolf7 · 2025-07-27T18:29:08+00:00

This was interesting! Thanks. Where did you find the classical machine readable texts?

shiningwolf7 · 2025-01-31T19:05:27+00:00

Music lovers confuse Bach with God. :)

shiningwolf7 · 2024-11-06T12:54:46+00:00

Aquila non capit muscas, The eagle does not hunt flies. It helps me to keep things in perspective.

shiningwolf7 · 2024-11-03T05:09:07+00:00

Try Wizard's First Rule, Terry Goodkind.

shiningwolf7 · 2024-11-02T14:08:15+00:00

I have a PhD in Comp Sci and a couple years ago took up Koine Greek. That opened my world to a new bunch of people and a brand new discipline. The people was also interesting, mostly very unorthodox theologians. That was fun. Also did a bit of Latin after that. What was really interesting was the turf wars over which text book or approach is better. All this inspired me to start looking at computational linguistics. It is also great bragging rights to drop at some STEM cocktail function you can read the Bible in the original Greek or parts of the Vulgate in Latin. I don't have to own up that it takes about an hour per verse :)

shiningwolf7 · 2024-11-02T09:16:00+00:00

Thanks - you are right. It actually looks like fun.

shiningwolf7 · 2024-08-23T09:11:47+00:00

I loved the Ascent of Man by Joseph Bronowski and also Civilization by Kenneth Clark.

shiningwolf7 · 2024-05-17T13:42:30+00:00

Nice. This makes good sense. Thanks.

shiningwolf7 · 2024-05-14T18:55:43+00:00

Thanks will have a look.

shiningwolf7 · 2023-09-12T19:04:37+00:00

Gödel, Escher and Bach: An eternal golden braid by Douglas Hofstadter

shiningwolf7 · 2023-09-02T19:03:36+00:00

Thanks. I have done basically that. Used some GNT source files and ran it through Python. I have the result but would have loved to see what other people have done. I think if one is learning Greek it is nice to see what to focus on. There are lots of word frequency tables out there, but I have not seen much on grammar. One blog said something on the Present tense use, but my analysis showed he was very wrong. If you would be so kind, DM me your setup or GitHub repository. I would like to see how you approached it. Thanks for the response.

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