Many Mathematicians Derive Part Of Their Self-esteem

We Must Be Very Careful When We Give Advice To Younger People; Sometimes They Follow It!

Yes, I Share Your Concern: How To Program Well -though A Teachable Topic- Is Hardly Taught. The Situation Is Similar To That In Mathematics, Where The Explicit Curriculum Is Confined To Mathematical Results; How To Do Mathematics Is Something The Student Must Absorb By Osmosis, So To Speak. One Reason For Preferring Symbol-manipulating, Calculating Arguments Is That Their Design Is Much Better Teachable Than The Design Of Verbal/pictorial Arguments. Large-scale Introduction Of Courses On Such Calculational Methodology, However, Would Encounter Unsurmoutable Political Problems.

I Don't Need To Waste My Time With A Computer Just Because I Am A Computer Scientist.

In The Good Old Days Physicists Repeated Each Other's Experiments, Just To Be Sure. Today They Stick To Fortran, So That They Can Share Each Other's Programs, Bugs Included.

Computer Science Is No More About Computers Than Astronomy Is About Telescopes.