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The intro level humanities courses may not have as clever nicknames but they bear the same relationship to upper level courses and the discipline as a whole as those classes do.

Many programming courses use bank accounts as examples of race conditions in concurrent systems, eg.

We actively contribute to personal and professional development and have a minimum budget allowance to be spent on courses, conferences, and books.

And they still have the same circus of sending you on mandatory courses of zero benefit that they have in other countries.

In fact, many visual arts courses have successfully introduced programming to an audience of designers and artists that are usually not fond of it.

(There's startup potential there - offer conversion training courses, where people who already know A are taught B.

I took several hundred hours of courses about this process and I could not even begin to explain it, it's so ridiculous.

There were certainly some non-major-specific courses that I had to take that did have a positive effect on my thinking and reasoning ability.

I'm not sure if all Canadian high schools were like ours but we had dedicated courses for learning everything from Qbasic to Maya.

With all the free online courses and code schools there isn’t a barrier that stops anyone from becoming a programmer where as other industries have barriers of entry.

I'm currently taking one of Matt Blaze's courses at Penn (Operating Systems).

Undergrad courses here are very hit or miss...

Maybe that's expected in the industry and I've made my peace with it but in other industries you get sent to training courses even if they take away few days or even weeks of "productive" time.

And I think you see it being used in "intro" programming courses to teach middle school or high school kids for that reason -- it quickly shows something visual where platforms, dependencies, and complex libs have made that harder elsewhere.