| -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 5:14 PM | To: [email protected] | Subject: [Geowanking] Need some advice | | On another related matter, I'm part of a Microsoft initiative to | determine what computer education should be taught to the next | generation of scientists who are not computer scientists or software | engineers.
Check out "How to Design Programs" and the related work of Felleisen and the PLT crew: http://htdp.org The premise of HTDP is that designing programs should be an integral part of any liberal education. A semester would get an average-paced class through most of the book, at the end of which students would be much better prepared for the kind of programming that binds the web together or helps a scientists munge data sets than, say, AP Comp Sci A, IMO. Scientists in particular would benefit richly from exposure to HTDP -- I certainly would have heading into physics as an undergrad and groundwater hydrology in grad school. | Thanks, Regards, | Renee George The information contained in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It has been sent for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its contents, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
