Maybe D is right about GC after all !

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On Tuesday, 26 December 2017 at 15:53:50 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>
> Sadly I cannot see either of these happening. There is already 
> too much to pack in to an undergraduate CS (*) course even if 
> first programming and simple algorithms moves out into 
> pre-university education – as has now happened in the UK. Also 
> far too few universities have good CS/Psych cooperation.
>

This is changing though, particulary as a result of advances in 
cognitive neuroscience.

i.e. These sciences are bringing about new 'quantifiable' 
knowledge, which can then be formally integrated into education.

But the design of graduate studies really needs to be radically 
transformed, as they simply try to pack far too much in...leaving 
students without any time to reflect on what they're doing, or 
why they're doing it.

In addition, we live in 'the age of distractions and 
mulitasking', so students really learn very little these days 
from doing a degree..(particulary those packed with too much 
stuff).

I think this is why (at least in Australia), there is a 
significant trend towards studying degrees part-time - the 
cognitive load of full-time degrees not longer support the way 
people want to (or just happen to) live these days.

Until univerties stop trying to be money making machines, and get 
back to teaching people how to learn about useful things, then 
not much will change.

Anyway, too see how useful it is, to combine psychology and 
programming language/library design, here is a great paper:

https://synesthesiam.com/assets/hansen2012_architectures.pdf

btw. One of the things I like most about D, has to do with 
'chunking comprehension' - and in comparison to C or C++, D is 
the winner for sure.