Subject: Computer Science Educational Breakthrough
From: Ross Williams <ross@smokey.ua.oz.au>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 19:20:00 PST
Organization: Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Sth.
Australia
HORIZONS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
By Ross Williams 3 June 1988.
Recent studies have shown that while undergraduate students are more intelligent than kindergarten students, the mentality and attention span of the two groups are similar. With this in mind, we introduce a new concept in Computer Science education:
"COMPUTER SCIENCE YOUNG ONES"
Neil: Ow, WOW heavy! My lentil binary trees are growing exponentially.
Vivian: This calls for a subtle combination of mathematics and extreme violence.
Rick: Oh you couldn't theorize even if you picked your nose with a silicon chip.
Vivian: OK, watch! This is how you dismantle a binary tree in constant time...
CRUNCH, CHOP, CRASH...
Neil: WOW. Heavy. Look at the mess. Look at all the garbage!
Garbage: Now they'll try to clean me up in constant time, but they've forgotten about all those cycles caused by curly lentils...
Vivian: Oh no we didn't because I cut all the cycles before I chopped down the tree...
Rick: You can't do that in linear time! What sort of a snotty nosed gullible girlie do you think I am?
Vivian: Well I had him fooled!
Neil: No you didn't! I was just waiting for the tree to spontaneously re-assemble.
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