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Ask HN: Most important issues for compsci students to learn about and solve?
2 points by roymurdock on Sept 20, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
Question inspired by a new undergrad econ "textbook" that identifies inequality as one of the most important problems in economics to understand and study today. Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15282766

What are some equivalent problems in computer science, and if you were setting out to write a textbook, what would you want students today to learn about and solve?



I think it is making it easier for non-professional programmers to express themselves to computers, e.g. better programming languages, compilers, more intelligent interfaces, integrating machine learned models with mainstream code in a reproducible way.

This book is an attack on the problem from one angle

https://www.amazon.com/Software-Factories-Assembling-Applica...

Note the authors of that book were lead architect's for Microsoft's Team Studio System. It may have been the system that they wanted to build, but we wound up with something that isn't quite as good.




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