On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 8:24 PM, kirby urner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/8/3 michel paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> In secondary math classes we often say "Math is a language", but we really
>> don't teach it that way.
>
> << SNIP >>
>
>> This semester, at a high school level, I do intend to tea
2008/8/3 michel paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> In secondary math classes we often say "Math is a language", but we really
> don't teach it that way.
Turing Award winner Ken Iverson did. He called data objects nouns,
functions verbs, identifiers pronouns, and operators (to create new
verbs from old) a
. I believe that a typical way to name it would be "pyweb2 .
2008/7/19 Atul Varma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 2008/7/19 Tony Theodore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> In my mind, web2py sums it up pretty well - Web 2.0 in Python. MVC, ajax,
>> trivial deployment (even back to cgi on GAE), all "web2ish" attrib
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From: kirby urner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] nouns and verbs
To: michel paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "edu-sig@python.org" , Glenn Stockton
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2008/8/3 michel paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> In secon
In secondary math classes we often say "Math is a language", but we really
don't teach it that way.
The closest we get to that is calling the comparison operators 'verbs' and
the various kinds of values that can be combined into expressions 'nouns'.
So, as far as contemporary secondary math think
