I saw this header on a site called Experience CS:
At the risk of repeating myself, this is why CS education is so lousy: the assumption that computer science can be taught by people with no experience.
How can you teach anything confidently if you have no experience? I can’t think of anything to plug in there in place of “computer science” and have it make sense.
Teach physics confidently, no experience needed
Teach piano lessons confidently, no experience needed
I know what they mean in the case of computer science is that you can confidently point students to an online curriculum where they can try to learn computer science on their own, but that’s not teaching.
What if a student needs help and asks you a question? Ah, there’s the rub! Where’s your confidence now?
Thus spoke The Programmer
