> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:edu-sig- > Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] K-16 CS/math hybrid
> > Part of my hysteria here - for those who have been long-timers to the > > list and therefore to my hysterias - has been in sensing some effort > > on the part of the Python community as positioning Python as the > > tool to take the rigor out of a programming curricula. > > I don't sense this, especially given Alex Martelli's influence (I wonder > how > he's liking the new job at Google BTW). And Guido is a very clear > thinker, > meaning the level of metacognition behind Python's design is quite high. > Tim Peters. What's to worry? I know I'm probably being oversensitive, but it sounds to me like you are sending me off to the psychiatrist - again. Perhaps my perception is that the metacogators have overreached, at times. Their rigor never being in question. The question left open - more than I thought reasonable - being the extent to which their rigor would obviate my need for my own. The issue is inherent in the circumstances. If programming is so powerful - why can't the folks really good at it make it so it isn't so damn hard to learn. Can't they whip something up that makes it easy. It they can't - how powerful is the practice - really. And if it ain't powerful in this way, why would I waste my time on it. *My* answer is "please don't", but please do go away and please don't come back. But I am a hard ass. And others seem to think there are better ways to respond. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
