In a message of Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:07:53 CDT, Jeff Rush writes:
>I'd love to get into the head of some of these decision makers - what
>wierd view do they have of CS? They must imagine it being some luxury
>topic, some elective nice to have like Italian for advanced students but
>not something
I just want to offer a little more background on the AP situation.
There used to be two AP CS courses: AP CS A was and remains roughly
equivalent to a semester-long college intro to programming in Java and
AP CS AB was roughly equivalent to a data structures course. The AB
course was not offered b
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Jeff Rush wrote:
> Lloyd Hugh Allen wrote:
>> I'm a math teacher who uses python for personal purposes, but the cs
>> teacher in my building told me that the higher level cs ab ap was axed
>> for this year - that could contribute to lower enrollment. Apparently
>> a
Lloyd Hugh Allen wrote:
> I'm a math teacher who uses python for personal purposes, but the cs
> teacher in my building told me that the higher level cs ab ap was axed
> for this year - that could contribute to lower enrollment. Apparently
> ap italian was also on the chopping block until the gov't
Here's a link from MPG @ math-teach / Math Forum re a PyNomo
http://myreckonings.com/wordpress/2009/07/31/creating-nomograms-with-the-pynomo-software/
I'm studying the docs and seeing a student would be picking up a lot
of LaTex, skills related to publishing formally in mathematical
journals (eve
We need to make sure that people in various programs can find such
resources. I will Wiki your repository at Earth Treasury and Sugar
Labs, and I am copying this to Stacy Reed, the Librarian Chick. Where
else can we list this and other resources?
Please be careful of CCs if you reply to this messa
I'm a math teacher who uses python for personal purposes, but the cs
teacher in my building told me that the higher level cs ab ap was axed
for this year - that could contribute to lower enrollment. Apparently
ap italian was also on the chopping block until the gov't of italy
ponied upif only t
