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Focus On Fundamentals

ผ๋ณธ— ‘‘•˜ธฐ

–ด๋–ปฒŒ Šน ••œ ”Œ๋žซผ—„œ, Šน ••œ –ธ–ด๋กœ, ™”๋ฉด„ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋ฆฌ”„๋ž˜‰ฌ•˜๋Š”ง€ …Œฌ๋‹‰„ ฐ€๋ฅดณฃผ๋Š” ฑ…— ด€‹žˆ๋Š” ‚ฌ๋žŒ€ ๋งŽ•„๋„ ๋ชจ๋“  ”Œ๋žซผ—„œ, ๋ชจ๋“  –ธ–ด๋กœ, Šน • ๋ฌธ œ— –ด๋–ค Œจ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ž„„  šฉ•••  ง€ ด€‹žˆ๋Š” ‚ฌ๋žŒ€ ๋“œ๋ฌผ๋‹ค.


Software Engineering Education Can, And Must, Focus On Fundamentals.
†Œ”„Šธ›จ–ด —”ง€๋‹ˆ–ด๋ง ตœ€ ผ๋ณธ— ‘‘•  ˆ˜ žˆœผ๋ฉฐ, ๋˜•œ ธ๋ ‡ฒŒ •••œ‹ค.

When I began my EE education, I was surprised to find that my well-worn copy of the "RCA
Tube Manual" was of no use. None of my lecturers extolled the virtues of a particular tube or type
of tube. When I asked why, I was told that the devices and technologies that were popular then
would be of no interest in a decade. Instead, I learned fundamental physics, mathematics, and a
way of thinking that I still find useful today.

๋‚ดฐ€ EE ตœ„ ‹œž‘–ˆ„•Œ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‚˜˜ ๋‚ก•„๋น „ 'RCA Tube Manual'“ธ๋ชจ—†๋Š” ฒƒž„„ •Œ  ๋†€๋ฒŒ ๋˜—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜˜ ตˆ˜๋“ค ธ ๋ˆ„ตฌ๋„ Šน • tube ๋‚˜ tube ˜ ƒ€ž…˜ žฅ — ๋Œ€•นญฐฌ•œ  —†—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ดฐ€ ™œ ธ๋žฌ๋Š”ง€ งˆ๋ฌธ–ˆ„•Œ 'œ ๋ช…–ˆ๋˜ ๋””๋ฐ”Šค๋‚˜ ธฐˆ ๋“ค€ 10๋…„ ๋‚ด—๋Š” ๋ณ„๋ณผ—†–ด„‹ค'๋Š” ฒƒ„ •ŒฒŒ๋˜—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€‹ , ๋‚˜๋Š” ผ๋ณธ ธ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ, ˆ˜•™, ธ๋ฆฌ  ๋‚ดฐ€ ˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ นŒง€๋„ œ šฉ•„ ๋ฐœฒฌ•˜๋Š”, ‚ฌ •˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•— ๋Œ€•ด ๋ฐฐ› ‹ค.

Clearly, practical experience is essential in every engineering education; it helps the students to
learn how to apply what they have been taught. I did learn a lot about the technology of that day in
laboratory assignments, in my hobby (amateur radio), as well as in summer jobs, but the lectures
taught concepts of more lasting value that, even today, help me to understand and use new
technologies.

๋ช…๋ฐฑ•˜ฒŒ, ‹šฉ ฒฝ—˜€ ๋ชจ๋“  —”ง€๋‹ˆ–ด๋ง ตœ—„œ •„ˆ˜ ด๋‹ค; ด๋Š” •™ƒ๋“ค๋กœ •˜—ฌธˆ ธ๋“คด ๋ฐฐ›Œ˜ฒƒ„ –ด๋–ปฒŒ  šฉ• ง€— ๋Œ€•ด ๋ฐฐšฐ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋„›€„ ค€๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” —ฐตฌ‹ˆ™ œ, ๋‚˜˜ จ๋ฏธ (•„๋งˆ„–ด ๋ผ๋””˜ค) —„œ ธฐˆ ๋“ค— ๋Œ€•ด ๋งŽ€ ฒƒ„ ๋ฐฐ›  , ๋˜•œ —ฌ๋ฆ„๋ฐฉ•™๋•Œ •„๋ฅด๋ฐ”Šธ ๋“ฑ—„œ๋„ ๋ฐฐ› ‹ค. •˜ง€๋งŒ, ˆ˜—…๋“ค€ ๋” ง€† ฐ€˜๋“ค˜ œ๋…„ ฐ€๋ฅดณฃผ , ด๋Š” ˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ นŒง€๋„ ๋‚˜—ฒŒ ƒˆ๋กœšด ธฐˆ ๋“ค— ๋Œ€•••˜  šฉ•  ˆ˜ žˆ๋„๋ก ๋„›€„ ฃผ  žˆ๋‹ค.

Readers familiar with the software field will note that today's "important" topics are not
mentioned. "Java", "web technology", "component orientation", and "frameworks" do not appear.
The many good ideas that underlie these approaches and tools must be taught. Laboratory exercises
and other projects should provide students with the opportunity to use the most popular tools and
to experiment with some new ones. However, we must remember that these topics are today's
replacements for earlier fads and panaceas and will themselves be replaced. It is the responsibility
of educators to remember that today's students' careers could last four decades. We must identify
the fundamentals that will be valid and useful over that period and emphasise those principles in
the lectures. Many programmes lose sight of the fact that learning a particular system or language
is a means of learning something else, not an goal in itself.

†Œ”„Šธ›จ–ด •„๋“œ— ˆ™•œ ๋…ž๋“ค€ ˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ ˜ '‘š”•œ' ฃผ œ๋“ค€ –ธธ‰๋˜ง€ •ŠŒ„ ง€ •œ‹ค. Java, "›น ธฐˆ ", "ปดฌ๋„ŒŠธ ง€–ฅ", ธ๋ฆฌ  "”„ ˆž„›Œฌ" ๋Š” ๋‚˜ƒ€๋‚˜ง€ •Š•˜‹ค. ด๋Ÿฌ•œ  ‘ผ๋ฒ•ณผ ˆด๋“ค— ธฐ๋ฐ˜•œ ๋งŽ€ ‹€ •„ด๋””–ด๋“ค€ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ‹œ ฐ€๋ฅดณ••œ‹ค. —ฐตฌ‹ˆ™ œ๋“คณผ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ”„๋กœ Šธ๋“ค€ •™ƒ๋“ค—ฒŒ ฐ€žฅ ๋Œ€‘   œ ๋ช…•œ ˆด๋“ค„ šฉ•  ธฐšŒ๋ฅผ  œณต•••˜๋ฉฐ, ๋˜•œ ๋ญ”ฐ€ ƒˆ๋กœšด ฒƒ„ ฒฝ—˜•  ธฐ˜ธ๋ฅผ  œณต•••œ‹ค. •˜ง€๋งŒ, šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ด๋Ÿฌ•œ ฃผ œ๋“ค€ ˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ ˜ ด๋ฅธ ๋ณ€๋•„ œ„•œ ตฒด’ˆ๋“ค ด๋ฉฐ ๋งŒ๋ณ‘†ต˜•ด๋ฉฐ ณง ตฒด๋  ฒƒ๋“คž„„ ธฐ–ต•••œ‹ค. ตœž๋“ค—ฒŒ๋Š” ˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ ˜ •™ƒ๋“ค˜ „ณตด 40๋…„€ ง€†•  ˆ˜ žˆ–ด••„ ธฐ–ต•••  ฑ…ž„žˆ๋‹ค. šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ธฐ„๋™•ˆšจณผ   œ šฉ•œ ผ๋ณธ๋“ค„ •Œ , ธ๋ฆฌ  ˆ˜—…‹œ„— ›๋ฆฌ๋“ค„ •กฐ•••œ‹ค. ๋งŽ€ ”„๋กœธ๋ž˜๋จธ๋“ค€ Šน • ‹œŠค…œด๋‚˜ ”„๋กœธ๋ž˜๋ฐ –ธ–ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐšฐ๋Š” ฒƒด ๋ญ”ฐ€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ฒƒ„ ๋ฐฐšฐ๋Š” ฒƒผ ๋ฟ, ฑฐ žฒด˜ ๋ชฉ‘œฐ€ •„‹ˆ๋ผ๋Š” ‚ฌ‹— ๋Œ€•‹œ•ผ๋ฅผ žƒณค •œ‹ค.


Students usually demand to be taught the language that they are most likely to use in the world outside (FORTRAN or C). This is a mistake. A well taught student (viz. one who has been taught a clean language) can easily pick up the languages of the world, and he or she will be in a far better position to recognize their bad features as he or she encounters them.

•™ƒ๋“ค€ ผ๋ฐ˜ œผ๋กœ ฐ€žฅ ๋งŽšฉ๋  ฒƒ ฐ™€ –ธ–ด๋“ค (FORTRAN ด๋‚˜ C)„ ฐ€๋ฅด˜ธฐ๋ฅผ š”ตฌ•œ‹ค. ด๋Š” ž˜๋ชปด๋‹ค. ›Œ๋ฅญ•˜ฒŒ •™Šต๋ฐ›€ •™ƒ๋“ค (ฆ‰, ๋ฐ”ฟ” ๋ง•˜๋ฉด, clean language(?)๋ฅผ ฐ€๋ฅดนจ๋ฐ›€ •™ƒ)€ ‰ฝฒŒ –ธ–ด๋ฅผ „ ƒ•  ˆ˜ žˆ , ๋” ‹€ œ„˜— žˆฑฐ๋‚˜, ธ๋“คด ๋ถ€๋”ช˜ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š” •ด๋‹–ธ–ด๋“ค˜ ž˜๋ชป๋œ Šน•๋“ค— ๋Œ€•ด ๋” ž˜ ‹•œ‹ค.

-- C. H. Lindsey, History of Algol 68. ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 28(3):126, March 1993.

ง€ธˆ ณต๋ถ€•˜ ž •˜๋Š” ฒƒ‚ฌžฅ๋  ธฐˆ นŒ ฑฑ •๋ฉ๋‹ˆนŒ?  •๋ง ๋œˆ˜ žˆ„นŒ ˜‹‘‹ˆนŒ? ๋งŽ€ ‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค€ ž๋ฐ”ฐ€ ‚ฌžฅ๋  ฒƒด๋  ๋ง–ˆŠต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŽ€ ‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค€ ๋ธ”๋ฃจˆฌŠคฐ€ ๋œฒƒด๋  ๋ง–ˆŠต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. –ด๋–ปฒŒ •••˜๋‚˜š”? FocusOnFundamentals. ˜ค๋ด๋งŒ ›„๋ฒผŒŒธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค RDB˜ ผ๋ณธ„ ›„๋ฒผŒŒ๋ฉด, ž๋ฐ”๋งŒ ›„๋ฒผŒŒธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค OOP˜ ผ๋ณธ„ ›„๋ฒผŒŒ๋ฉด  –ด๋„ –ฅ›„ 5๋…„„€ ๋“ ๋“ •  ฒƒž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ด๋Ÿฐ ผ๋ณธ„ ›„๋ฒผŒŒ๋Š” ฒƒ€ –ธ œ•  ˆ˜ žˆ๋‚˜š”? •™ƒ•Œ •  ˆ˜ žˆŠต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ‚ฌšŒ— ๋‚˜ฐ€๋ฉด •˜ธฐ –ด๋ ต๋‚˜š”? ธ๋ ‡Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ง€—ฝ—๋งŒ ๋งค๋‹ฌ๋ฆด •„š”๋Š” —†Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹จ, ˜ˆ™ธ๋Š” žˆŠต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ณต๋ถ€•˜  ‹–ด„œ ๋ฐค— ž๋‹ฐ€๋„ ฐ€Šดด ๋›ด๋‹ค๋ฉด ฒƒง€—ฝฑด ผ๋ณธฑด ๋งค„ •˜‹‹œ˜ค. ›„šŒ•˜ง€ •Š„ ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. •˜ง€๋งŒ ๋งˆ๋ƒฅ •••  ฒƒ ฐ™•„„œ, ๋‚˜‘— ง— ๋„›€ด ๋  ฒƒ ฐ™•„„œ, ๋‚จ๋“ค ๋‹•˜‹ˆนŒ ๋“ฑ๋“ฑ˜ žก๋‹•œ ธฐˆ „ ฃผ›Œ๋‹ด๋Š” –ด๋ฆฌ„Œ€ ๋ฒ”•˜ง€ ๋งˆ‹‹œ˜ค.

 €๋Š” ฃผ๋ณ€—„œ ž๋ฐ”๋งŒ ณต๋ถ€•œ ‚ฌ๋žŒ„ ๋ดคŠต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ‚ฌ๋žŒ€ ž๋ฐ”ฐ€ •„‹Œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ –ธ–ด๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด ฑด ๋‚˜๋ž‘ ƒด€—†๋Š” ฑฐ๋  ƒฐ•˜๋ฉฐ  œ๋ฅผ ๋Œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. –ด๋А •˜๋‚˜˜ OOP –ธ–ด— •œ„๋ฅผ ๋‘ง€ •Š  ณต๋ถ€•˜๋Š” ‚ฌ๋žŒ„ ๋ดคŠต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ‚ฌ๋žŒ€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ฒƒ„˜ ด€„๋ฅผ ฐพ  —ฐฒฐง“ , ๋” ฐ ธ๋ฆผ„ ๋งŒ๋“ค–ด ๋‚˜‘‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘˜ ‘— ›„žฐ€ OOP(‹ง€–ด๋Š” ž๋ฐ” žฒด)— ๋Œ€•œ •ฐ€ ๋” นŠ  ๋ณธงˆ —ˆŠต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.  €๋Š”    ๋” ™€ ๋น„Š•œ ‚ฌ๋ก€๋ฅผ  ‘•˜ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ž๋ฐ”๋ฅผ ›„๋ฒผŒŒ๋Š” ฒƒ€ ‹Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋™‹œ— OOP๋„ ›„๋ฒผŒŒ••ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค -- ‚ฌ‹ค OOP๋ฅผ ›„๋ฒผŒŒ๋ฉด„œ ž๋ฐ”๋ฅผ ๋“ฑ•œ‹œ •˜ธฐ๋Š” –ด๋ šธ ฒƒž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. •˜ง€๋งŒ ž๋ฐ”๋งŒ ›„๋ฒผŒŒ๋Š” ฒƒ€ ๋‹‹œ •œ๋ฒˆ ƒฐ•ด ๋ณด‹‹œ˜ค(ธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜  œฐ€ •ž„œ ๋ง–ˆ๋“ฏž ž๋‹ฐ€๋„ ž๋ฐ” ๋•Œ๋ฌธ— ฐ€Šดด ๋›ด๋‹ค๋ฉด ณต๋ถ€•˜‹‹œ˜ค). ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐฐ›€— •œ„๋ฅผ ‹ง€ ๋งˆ‹‹œ˜ค. ธ๋ฆฌ  ข€ ถ”ƒ •ธฐฐ€ ๋ ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด ๋Š”๋ฐ, šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” "†Œฌ๋…ŒŠคฐ€ ฃฝ๋Š”๋‹ค"๋Š” ฒƒ„ ๋ฐฐšฐ๋Š” ฒƒ—„œ ˜ธธ ›•˜ง€ •ŠŠต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” "‚ฌ๋žŒ€ ฃฝ๋Š”๋‹ค"๋Š” ฒƒ„ ๋ฐฐšฐ  ‹–ด•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ธ ๋ฐฐ›€€ ง ‘ ‚ฌ‹˜ ฒด—˜ ›„— ฐ€๋Šฅ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.  ๋กœ ๋ชจ๋“  ณต๋ถ€๋Š” ธฐ๋ณธ œผ๋กœ €๋‚ฉ„ ๋ฐ”ƒ•œผ๋กœ •ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค(ฒƒ œฐ€ ๋ง•˜๋Š” "๋ชธ ณต๋ถ€"ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค). €๋‚ฉ‹, —ฐ—ญ‹ ณต๋ถ€๋ , ๋˜ ฒƒ„ œ„ด๋  ตฌ๋ถ„•˜๋Š” ฒƒ€ ๋ฌด˜๋ฏธ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. see also NoSmok:œ•œธฐ˜ ถ”ธก๋ก

šฐ๋ฆฌฐ€ กฐ‹•••  ฒƒ€ –ด๋А •œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ• ˆ๋Œ€ ด๋  •˜๋Š” ฒƒณผ, ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๋กœ ƒ๋Œ€ฃผ˜— ๋งค๋ชฐ๋˜๋Š” ฒƒ ๋‘ฐ€ง€ ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌด—‡ฑด œฐฎ๋‹ค(anything goes)™€ ฒƒ๋งŒœ •˜‹‘ •˜๋‚˜๋งŒ ณจ๋••˜๋Š” ฒƒ€ •„‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

‚ฌ‹ œ •ธฐ๋Š” ˆ˜‚ฌ ฐจ›—„œ •„ ณผžฅ๋œ ฒƒง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. FocusOnFundamentalsฐ€  šฉ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฒ”œ„๋ฅผ ผญ •œ„ง€„ •„š”๋Š” —†„ ๋“ฏ ‹Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ž๋ฐ”๋ฅผ ณต๋ถ€•œ‹ค๋ฉด ž๋ฐ”˜ "fundamentals"— ๋” ‘‘„ •  ˆ˜๋„ žˆ  . •˜ง€๋งŒ ๋Š˜ "ฐ ธ๋ฆผ"„ ๋ณด๋„๋ก ๋…ธ๋ •••  ฒƒž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ดฐ€ ณต๋ถ€•˜๋Š” ฒƒ †—„œ "fundamentals"๋Š” ๋ฌด—‡ , ๋‚ดฐ€ ณต๋ถ€•˜๋Š” ฒƒ†•œ ๋ฒ”ฃผ—„œ "fundamentals"๋Š” ๋ฌด—‡ง€.

๋ง€ ธธฒŒ –ˆง€๋งŒ ฒฐตญ DavidParnasฐ€ •œ ๋งณผ ฐ™€ „  ƒ— žˆ๋‹  ๋ณด๋ฉด ๋˜ Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


„ƒ—๋Š” ฐธ ๋‹–‘•œ ‚ฌ๋žŒžˆŠต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. €๋‚ฉ‹˜ ณต๋ถ€๋ฅผ ••ž˜๋˜๋Š” ‚ฌ๋žŒ, —ฐ—ญ‹˜ ณต๋ถ€๋ฅผ ••ž˜๋˜๋Š” ‚ฌ๋žŒ.. ž๋ฐ”๋ฅผ ฃฝ๋„๋ก ณต๋ถ€–ˆ๋”๋‹ˆ OOP˜ ผ๋ณธ๋งŒ„ ›„๋ฒผŒ ‚ฌ๋žŒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” OOP๋ฅผ ž˜ ฟฐ๋Š” ‚ฌ๋žŒ๋„ žˆ„ ˆ˜ žˆŠต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. RDBฐ€ •„‹Œ ˜ค๋ด๋งŒด RDB˜  „๋ถ€๋  ƒฐ•˜๋Š” ‚ฌ๋žŒ˜žˆ๋ ค ๋” ๋นจ๋ฆฌ RDB˜ ผ๋ณธ„ นจ  ˆ˜๋„ žˆŠต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ปดŒŒผ๋Ÿฌ•™๋ฌธด ๋‚˜˜  ฌŠธ๋ž€ –ธ–ดฐ€ ๋‚˜˜ฒƒ€ •„‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. –ด๋А •˜๋‚˜˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๋งŒ˜ณ๋‹  ƒฐ•˜ง€๋Š” •ŠŠต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ธ๋ฆฌ  –ด๋–ค ฒƒ๋„ žก๋‹•˜ง€๋Š” •Š๋‹  ƒฐ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ‚ฌ๋žŒ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜‹–‘•œ œ„žˆ ง€š”. --•„๋ฌดœ
šฐ„ ,  œฐ€ OOP๋‚˜ RDB ๋“ฑ ผ๋ณธ„ ณต๋ถ€•˜  •œ ๋ง„ OOP, RDB ด๋ก „œ๋งŒ ๋ถ™žก  ๋Š˜–ด ธ๋ผ๋Š” ˜๋ฏธ๋กœ ณก••˜‹  ๋“ฏ •ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ž๋ฐ” ๋ง  OOP๋ฅผ ณต๋ถ€•ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋งด ๋ถ€๋”” ž๋ฐ”ฑ…€ ๋ณดง€๋ง  OOP ด๋ก „œ๋งŒ ๋ณด๋ผ๋Š” ๋ง๋กœ ˜•ด๋˜ง€ •Šธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค( €๋Š” š”˜๋“ค–ด OOP ณต๋ถ€๋Š” Šค๋ชฐ† ฌ—„œ ‹œž‘•˜๋Š” ฒƒ‹ง€ •Š„นŒ ƒฐ•˜  žˆŠต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค). ธ๋ฆฌ  žก๋‹•˜‹ค๋Š” ฒƒ€ —ฌ๋Ÿฌฐ€ง€ ๋„ˆ €๋ถ„•˜ฒŒ „ž—ฌžˆ–ด ฒด„ฐ€ —†๋‹ค๋Š” ฒƒž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. "Xฐ€ žก๋‹•˜‹ค"  •˜๋Š” ฒƒ€ X †— žˆ๋Š” ๋‚ดšฉ๋ฌผฒด„ฐ€ —†๋‹ค๋Š” •ธฐฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. žก๋‹•˜‹ค๋Š” ฒƒ€ กดžฌ ง€–ฅ•„‹ˆ  ด€„ ง€–ฅ˜ ‘œ˜„ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. --น€ฐฝค€

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Q: What advice do you have for computer science/software engineering students?

A: Most students who are studying computer science really want to study software engineering but they don't have that choice. There are very few programs that are designed as engineering programs but specialize in software.

I would advise students to pay more attention to the fundamental ideas rather than the latest technology. The technology will be out-of-date before they graduate. Fundamental ideas never get out of date. However, what worries me about what I just said is that some people would think of Turing machines and Goedel's theorem as fundamentals. I think those things are fundamental but they are also nearly irrelevant. I think there are fundamental design principles, for example structured programming principles, the good ideas in "Object Oriented" programming, etc.



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