John Zelle wrote: >I _think_ I'm all for this, but again I'm not sure I know exactly what you are >saying. If you are saying that students might get interested in programming >through exposure in math (or some other "domain") and then want to turn to CS >classes to learn more, that sounds like a good thing. But it's still curious >to me that the implied tone here is one of denigrating teaching introductory >programming in CS classes because it is "divorced from any domain" and then >at the same time suggesting the thing to do is teach programming in the >context of math. > I have a hard time digesting being told by a CS professor that there is no special relationship between mathematics, algorithmics, and the roots of computer science.
Being told that by John Zelle I will try to think harder about it. But I find it hard to even find a way to put this in the "maybe there is, maybe there isn't" category. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
