> On Oct 6, 2017, at 5:39 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > >>> These students weren't quite ready for Knuth. They were second and third >>> semester. > > On Fri, 6 Oct 2017, Paul Koning wrote: >> Second and third semester of what, high school? Anyone qualified to be in a >> college CS program should be able to handle Knuth. > > community college, with lots of "returning to college", part-time students, > and adults who never had the background, but WANTED to start learning such > stuff. And some students who were there specifically because they weren't > ready scholastically to handle a college cs program. > Enormous variation in backgrounds and abilities. > > I tried to help them get to the point where they COULD handle some Knuth.
Great. Ok, that's different, I see your point. paul