Where Does Secure Coding Belong In the Curriculum?

[Stephan.Neuhaus at disi.unitn.it (Stephan Neuhaus)]

On Aug 25, 2009, at 18:07, Andy Steingruebl wrote:

> <Sarcasm>really?  First graders are learning to do math proofs instead
> of basic addition?  I'm quite surprised by this.</Sarcasm>

Yeah, sorry.  When I wrote about "students" I meant "college  
students". I don't know, is that a difference between British English  
(pupils) and American English (students)? Anyway, my bad.

> We're missing I think the point I raised earlier.  Not everyone learns
> to program in high school or college.  And, even learning the basics
> of what an algorithm are is tricky, much less learning defensive
> programming, etc.

But the topic of the thread is "Where Does Secure Coding Belong In the  
Curriculum?" and I maintain that when someone is intellectually mature  
enough so that you can teach them how to program and at the same time  
really know what they're doing, you can teach them about correctness  
and security too.

Best,

Stephan