> ------------------ > CP4E EDITIONS > "presents Toolkit Book One" > > An embarassment of riches we have today > > Jason
Exactly right. If we're doing "military tribunals" all of a sudden (I think Congress may have a better idea), then let's queue up the math teachers to explain why: (1) download and install language x (2) teach basic algebra in terms of x is so tough for them to get. The students would benefit. Instead the plan seems to be: let's get our asses whipped in the civilian job market, but compensate with our bigger guns. That's a non-starter if I ever saw one. My preferred approach: at least give the USA military a free hand to teach Python on base schools, with off base non-DARPA schools allowed to copy the free source code (already paid for by taxpayers, so free for reuse). I have the same policy proposal for the Rez populations i.e the BIA schools, mostly funded from casino money anyway, which tribal elders control and use to build community (e.g. by helping to fund OMSI via Spirit Mountain -- my favorite science museum). To the students I say: CP4E from Python Nation is your friend. We'll rescue you from those dreary crypto-algebra teachers who don't know a computer from a hole in the ground, and wouldn't know a computer language if one bit them on the butt. [sound of 3rd graders laughing] Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
