On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Litvin <lit...@skylit.com> wrote: > > > Me too -- by a factor of two. At least. So what? First language > discussions flare up regularly on the ap-compsci listserve. In this forum, > Python would win, of course. :) I am all for Python, but I don't believe in > the "objects first" approach. The College Board's CS Development Committee > seems to be gradually moving away from heavy duty OOP back to algorithms. > > Gary Litvin > www.skylit.com >
"Heavy duty OOP" sounds somewhat extraneous to Algebra 2, I agree. However, if you show the 2 + 2 is adding two objects (2 .__add__(2) the same thing), is that "objects first"? Teacher projecting: >>> dir (2) # saying: "2 has internals, is an object with methods" So many gradations. Ideally, we start earlier with the computers and then have more than just the one high school math course in which to develop this thinking. MFTDA looks like a compressed version of what we could easily spread out across a wider time span. Could be a whole series, more like Saxon. Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
