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The Cognitive Dynamics of Computer Science
Computer software development has become very expensive in these United States, and there are a number of issues that high cost has brought with it. I suppose the most important of these is that the programming jobs are going overseas, along with most of our other manufacturing jobs. We can claim that we still do high-technology design, and the critical jobs of testing and integration. But these jobs, even if we did them well (which we don’t always do), will also go overseas, along with the making of our beloved Levi jeans.
There is also a silent acceptance within the computer science community that the quality of American software is poor, to put it mildly. This is well known, even to our major publishing houses. They note that we write fewer and fewer "readable" books that our young and not so young practitioners can use. We forget that the academic preparation of young Americans is the foundation of their professional lives. It is hoped that a long and serious apprenticeship lies ahead of them, until they, too, become masters of their professional fields. A large portion of our publications and books is written just to publish, and not to teach the young professional. When I pick up foreign textbooks, I’m astonished at the pains their authors took to make them readable and truly useful to the reader. Foreign books are not written solely for one’s academic peers; they are written to teach the reader.
We Americans are the great innovators and inventors, of course, but such jobs generally are restricted to a limited number of research houses, facilities, and universities. The earning of our daily bread as software professionals is becoming more and more difficult as the jobs are going away.
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