I briefly blogged about our meeting last night. http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2010/02/learning-on-line.html
I posted Ed Cherlin's Chinese + Arabic sig as a test of the unicode interface, even though he couldn't find Elluminate for his distro, so had to bail. Maria D. did a good job of hosting, and we were graced with the presence of one of the Great Lambda heavyweights, Peter Henderson. http://www.math-in-cs.org/ The Great Lambda worshipers are a tribe to our north, inherit through LISP, LOGO and Scheme, although that middle language donated its turtle to the OO camp, also working in Ruby right? http://www.rubyquiz.com/quiz104.html http://blog.notahat.com/posts/4 Re: "Great Lambda worshipers": talking about the functional programming camp, not wanting to pollute thinking like a mathematician with the "mutable variables" of the computer scientists. Python has "little lambda" (a token lambda). We seemed pretty much in agreement during this meeting that Computer Science is going away as a high school discipline, leaving only Mathematics (cite: death of CS AP test, only a pale shadow of its former self). The only question seems to be whether folding CS into Math means keeping some programming, or going with the New Zealand unplugged route (CS on paper). I'm not sure even New Zealand is going the NZ unplugged route. Nat Torkington has a say: http://nathan.torkington.com/ Lets see how students "vote with their feet" on that one, i.e. it's not entirely up to the teachers. Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
