I know that Steve Tate is talking about me, because
- I know him
- I remember the occasion
- It’s my favorite observation about Computer Science students.
Quoted from http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/:
One of my favorite comments in all the on-line discussion of cheating in CS is Comment 1 to Mark Guzdial’s blog entry, by Steve Tate:
About a decade ago I was chatting with some high school teachers when my university hosted a programming contest for high school kids. One teacher pointed out that her best CS students were those that also played either music or golf — her theory was that they were used to tasks where you are really bad at first, but you persevere and overcome that. But you have to be able to accept that you’ll really stink at it for a good long while.