Clearly they are in the business of reinventing the wheel ever year, with each generation of students. Coincidentally, I read something today that resonated with me on that issue:
"Real Software Engineering is still in the future. There is nothing in current SE that is like the construction of the Empire State building in less than a year by less than 3000 people: they used powerful ideas and power tools that we don’t yet have in software development. If software does “engineering” at all, it is too often at the same level as the ancient Egyptians before the invention of the arch (literally before the making of arches: architecture), who made large structures with hundreds of thousands of slaves toiling for decades to pile stone upon stone: they used weak ideas and weak tools, pretty much like most software development today." From: Is “Software Engineering” an Oxymoron? By Alan Kay http://web.archive.org/web/20030407181600/www.opencroquet.org/downloads/Croquet0.1.pdf On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 7:39:17 PM UTC+1, kcrisman wrote: > > Seems relevant and possibly related to e.g. SMC or sagenb - we have > already had many discussions of this type in some of the education circles > about "homework with Sage". > > http://www.wired.com/2015/02/university-bans-github-homework-changes-mind/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
