The should I am shoulding on the article is that it ought to account for the facts on the ground. The question of whether computer science curricula in the abstract ought to include calculus is a different question than should something which purports to be equivalent to a computer science curriculum include it - particularly when four of the five reference degrees include calculus and the sort of person who might pursue this track is subject to Dunning Kruger effects.
Now my personal opinion is inclined toward calculus being part of a computer science curriculum in the absence of compelling evidence that it should not. My reasons are:
+ Calculus is where algebraic skills really get practised to the point of competence because there they are tool rather than an end in themselves.
+ One of the longer edges at the edge of computer science as a science encompasses signal processing and that entails calculus directly or indirectly via statistics.
+ If computer science is a branch of mathematics, constructing an argument is left as an exercise for the reader.
Against calculus the primary argument is vocational. But as with any science curriculum these days, the product is graduates not scientists. We with half of all graduates below average.
Now my personal opinion is inclined toward calculus being part of a computer science curriculum in the absence of compelling evidence that it should not. My reasons are:
+ Calculus is where algebraic skills really get practised to the point of competence because there they are tool rather than an end in themselves.
+ One of the longer edges at the edge of computer science as a science encompasses signal processing and that entails calculus directly or indirectly via statistics.
+ If computer science is a branch of mathematics, constructing an argument is left as an exercise for the reader.
Against calculus the primary argument is vocational. But as with any science curriculum these days, the product is graduates not scientists. We with half of all graduates below average.