My not of interest to the list was not a put-down, just meant this
is not shared background, not everybody-knows stuff.
Note:
My exact words were: not necessarily relevant history to others on this
list, either.
I was NOT saying: therefore shut up about it (even though I'd encouraged
you
Behalf Of Arthur
But I am certainly convinced that the freedom to make mistakes is
unassailable as part of a learning process. And therefore conclude that
programming in the style that Python allows is an unassailable and
under-utilized educational resource.
Clarifying what I mean here,
Hello EDU-SIG,
CS enrollments seem to be dropping drastically everywhere. Many
factors probably are at fault (dot-com bust, off-shoring hype), but
there seem to be others. One in particular is that so few HS
graduates seem ready analytically to join in. This is a problem to
discuss
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 08:25:56PM -0600, Chuck Allison wrote:
Hello EDU-SIG,
CS enrollments seem to be dropping drastically everywhere. Many
factors probably are at fault (dot-com bust, off-shoring hype), but
there seem to be others. One in particular is that so few HS
graduates
Hello David,
This makes so much sense it's scary. Except I don't know how to
explain myself. I was a deprived city-slicker who did not know how to
work. College woke me up. But to be brutally honest, I didn't have
anything else to do but go to college, and I had no other area of
strength besides
