> On Oct 6, 2017, at 5:39 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>> These students weren't quite ready for Knuth. They were second and third
>>> semester.
>
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2017, Paul Koning wrote:
>> Second and third semester of what, high school? Anyone qualified to be in a
>> college CS program should be able to handle Knuth.
>
> community college, with lots of "returning to college", part-time students,
> and adults who never had the background, but WANTED to start learning such
> stuff. And some students who were there specifically because they weren't
> ready scholastically to handle a college cs program.
> Enormous variation in backgrounds and abilities.
>
> I tried to help them get to the point where they COULD handle some Knuth.
Great. Ok, that's different, I see your point.
paul
