> and does a good job of accomplishing its goal of introducing people to the fie...

bachmeier on July 21, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Harvard CS professor David Malan built a distance-...

> and does a good job of accomplishing its goal of introducing people to the field

That's exactly the point. The goal is not to help students to learn the material at a deep level. It's to recruit students to CS. I'm not even sure what the disagreement is at this point, so I'm going to step away.

kyawzazaw on July 21, 2020 [–]

but you were pointing out its flaws in achieving a different objective ("learning deeply")