“I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.” LittlesI CanHeardDegreesComputerTrainingProgramUniversityThese DaysFacultyComplaintsComputer ScienceJavaStanfordUndergraduateStanford UniversityVocational Training Author:Alan Kay
“In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. [...] Graphical communication in some form or other is of vital importance in engineering as that subject is now conducted; we must either provide the capability in our computer systems, or take on the impossible task of training up a future race of engineers conditioned to think in a different way.” ThinkingWayMeanDifferentFormRaceImpossibleSubjectsDesignCommunicationJudgmentComputerTrainingOrdinaryTasksImportanceCommunicateDifferent WaysCapabilityEngineeringEngineersInadequateComputer Systems Author:Maurice Wilkes
“Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.” TryingYearsKidsTodaySchoolTeachTomorrowComputerTrainingHigh SchoolWorkforceMainframe Author:Bill Gates
“We are never without our technology. It surrounds us. It permeates our lives. We have powerful computers in our pockets, and we have been - you know, we are training our children from the youngest age to use social media, so it's something that comes very naturally to us.” KnowsChildrenHas BeensUseAgeSocialPowerfulTechnologyOur LivesMediaComputerTrainingOur ChildrenSocial MediaPocketsSurround Author:Lance Ulanoff
“This new England we have invented for ourselves is not interested at all in education. It is only interested in training, both material and spiritual. Education means freedom, it means ideas, it means truth. Training is what you do to a pear tree when you pleach it and prune it to grow against a wall. Training is what you give an airline pilot or a computer operator or a barrister or a radio producer. Education is what you give children to enable them to be free from the prejudices and moral bankruptcies of their elders.” GivingMeanChildrenIdeasSpiritualGrowsMoralTreeMaterialsWallComputerTrainingPrejudiceEnglandRadioProducersPilotsNot InterestedEldersAirlineBankruptcyNew EnglandOperatorsPearsPrunesBarristersAirline PilotsSpiritual Education Author:Stephen Fry
“I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.” I CanDegreesComputerTrainingThese DaysComputer ScienceJavaUndergraduateVocational Training Author:Alan Kay
“In an environment where everybody's jersey is up for grabs, like what Joe Schmidt is currently doing with Ireland in rugby, a massive competitive environment is created every night at training, every day in the gym and every day, believe it or not, in the tactical computer room.” BelieveNightRoomsEnvironmentComputerTrainingMassiveGymIrelandEvery NightJerseyRugbyTacticalSchmidt Author:Brian Cody
“The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics.” ComputerTrainingEthicsScientistMathematicsDataDiscussionStatisticsComputer ScienceTechnicians Author:Cathy O'Neil
“We're training kids to do what computers do, which is spit back facts. And computers are always going to be better than human beings at that. But what they're not going to be better at is being social, navigating relationships, being citizens in a community. So we need to change the whole definition of what success in school, and out of school, means.” MeanKidsSchoolCommunityComputerTraining Author:Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
“One of the best things I ever did was to train in a practical skill. I love computers and they've become such a part of life, especially to the world of design. But it's important to understand that they are a tool, as much as a hammer or a saw is a tool. Computers don't help you design. There needs to be more emphasis on training young designers in how to build things. A good writer needs a good vocabulary. A good designer needs to understand his materials and processes. You can't, as a successful designer, pretend to get any respect if you don't know how things are made.” WorldImportantHelpingSuccessfulDesignComputerTrainingTrainDesignerGood Design Author:Marc Newson