Python Learning

[Bill]

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.
>