Nuclear Pedagogy
2nd April 2019
This a followup on Wadge’s Law
Every Computer Science course has a tendency to degenerate into a programming course.
This just begs to be generalized.
What about programming courses? Do they degenerate? To what?
For example, according to language teachers I’ve talked to, every, say, French course has a tendency to degenerate into a grammar course. What about other subjects?
My daughter, who teaches Chemistry, says that Chemistry courses (not hers, I assume) can degenerate into math courses. Apparently, it’s the same for other ‘hard’ sciences. Every now and then I walk through the Physics building and look at the posted assignment solutions. Calculus.
Change and decay in all around I see—
O Thou who changest not, abide with me.