> One area that is especially troublesome is knowledge of
> math. Programming is rooted in math and professional
> programmers will have studied math in depth but many
> amateur beginners may only have junior school math
> level. But how do you find out?
>
> It's a perennial problem when experts try to help novices...
[Meta discussion]
I think the recommendations from:
https://www.recurse.com/manual#sec-environment
are reasonable. Basically, we should keep in mind not to be jerks. :P
Also, I think it's fair to say that some of us have some backgrounds
as teachers, and we remember the admonishments from John Holt's "How
Children Fail":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Children_Fail
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