Timeline for is coding important?
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| Dec 24, 2010 at 3:55 | comment | added | Beth Lang | @ShreevatsaR Yes I agree. And I'm actually not all that strict on the fact that they code a lot in practice. Good coders rarely make good teachers. If the teacher knows their week points they can make up for it. We have a program locally that brings in industry people into the classroom. The teacher is an expert at teaching, can code, and knows how to draw the information out of the industry person for the benefit of the students. | |
| Dec 23, 2010 at 6:43 | comment | added | ShreevatsaR | @BitOff: I agree, but the "if" is also an "only if". A professor who never codes has no business teaching software development, but he may be perfectly suited to teaching, say, complexity theory. In this case, what he's teaching students is how to prove theorems, so the only requirement is that he needs to have practice proving theorems (not coding). | |
| Dec 23, 2010 at 6:03 | comment | added | Beth Lang | Yes, and I'd add you need to practice the "do" if you are going to teach others to "do" well. | |
| Dec 23, 2010 at 3:40 | comment | added | TehShrike | The voice of experience. This is about the best summary of professorship I think I've seen. | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 21:28 | history | answered | Eric Wilson | CC BY-SA 2.5 |