You teach and hence deal with this: "Information passed on between generations is diluted"
Is it diluted? No it isn't. Your job is teaching and books and computers help us avoid calling you a bard 8) Mind you, being called a bard is not a bad thing!
In the end this is a blog post response to another blog post. I have no idea about how "important" those bloggers are but I smell ... randomly deployed blogging for the sake of it. That's the whole point of a blog anyway. I'm being polite here ...
The IT industry has gotten highly specialised over time. The NAND-to-Tetris style education helps create computer scientists who know their stuff from ground up. But tech companies are constantly on the lookout for vocational pragmatists (like "Python Engineer" or "Java Engineer") who could quickly replace another like them. I think that's why the high level language first approach has gotten so popular.
You only have so many hours to teach in a course, the more kids come in with, the farther you can go. If kids have to be taught what were once taken for granted, something else has to give.
In many countries, such a problem is solved via that a lot of incapable students are "weeded out" by brutal exams (in particular "math for computer scientists" exams are prone for this) in the beginning or in the first semesters - consider it to be a kind of hard "sink or swim"-style curriculum.
You teach and hence deal with this: "Information passed on between generations is diluted"
Is it diluted? No it isn't. Your job is teaching and books and computers help us avoid calling you a bard 8) Mind you, being called a bard is not a bad thing!
In the end this is a blog post response to another blog post. I have no idea about how "important" those bloggers are but I smell ... randomly deployed blogging for the sake of it. That's the whole point of a blog anyway. I'm being polite here ...