CS/SE education topic: WHY do so many books/instructors have students program a student DB/gradebook/etc. as an early exercise, esp in OOP?
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And despite OO's allure/promises, there's actually no way to switch out one for the other while keeping the same class interfaces.
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Because it's a fundamental mismatch of what your objects/object-lifetimes are.
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I suspect that while you are right, students learning oo are unlikely to be equipped to also learn sql and Schema design. It's just a bad project
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Oh I agree. I'm not advocating starting them on hard topics. Rather finding easy learning examples that do make sense.
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There are lots of obvious math examples if you're willing to assume students know a little math or are willing to learn.
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Agreed. And basic algebra seems sensible. We even did Calc in one of my Cs classes (and it wasn't a prereq)
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