On Sat, Apr 2, 2016, 3:40 PM Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote:
> Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu>: > > > On 4/2/2016 12:44 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > > > >> Nowadays software companies and communities are international. > > > > Grade school classrooms, especially pre-high school, are not. > > Parenthetically, English teachers in Finland have been happy with how > teenage boys' English grades have gone up with the advent of online > gaming. > > High school boys get more top scores in English than girls. According > to a recent master's thesis, the most important causal factor for the > boys' success is spending a lot of time playing computer games. An > English language professor wants to raise awareness about the role of > games for language skills. > Gaming also helps your reaction time. Normally 0.3 ms, but 0.1 ms for top gamers. And fighter pilots. > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list