Python Learning

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Bill <BILL_NOSPAM at noway.net> wrote:
> Larry Martell wrote:
>>
>> So, your experience is that the style of learning you offer is
>>>
>>> unsuitable to anyone who doesn't have some background in algebra.
>>> That's fine. For your course, you set the prereqs. But that's not the
>>> only way for someone to get into coding. You do NOT have to go to
>>> college before you start creating software. That is also not an
>>> opinion; it's a fact backed by a number of proven instances (myself
>>> included).
>
>
> You might benefit by a course in logic.  I never said that was the only way
> to learn. I learned (BASIC) in 8th grade too.
>

You said earlier:

> 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 is not just an opinion, it's a fact.

If you want to qualify that by saying that coming to college is not
the only way to learn programming, you'd better say so, because
otherwise, the tone of what you're saying says that students NEED
algebra prior to learning a programming language.

Logic isn't the problem here. Clarity of language is. Watch your
implications if you don't want to be misunderstood.

ChrisA