Gregory Ewing wrote:
Bill wrote:
In my years of teaching experience, students who came to college
without the equivalent of "college algebra" were under-prepared for
what was expected of them.
This could be simply because it weeds out people who aren't
good at the required style of thinking.
I think that's absolutely true. If someone gets out of high school and
doesn't understand college algebra (~8th grade math), they come into a
programming class with an inherent disadvantage. They "can't understand"
the book, just like they "couldn't" understand their math book.
If that's true,
anything that exercises mathematical thinking should have
the same effect. There just doesn't happen to be anything
else in the mainstream education curriculum that does that.
--
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
