[Edu-sig] Looking for a course syllabus exemplars for a high school year-long course in Python/Javascript

[kirby urner]

> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:03 AM, roberto <roberto03 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I couldn't find it, would you past the link to the textbook?
> I sifted through your post but couldn't find it.
>
> Thanks for sharing.
>



Hi Roberto --

What I meant was, 'Mathematics for the Digital Age...'
(which you already know about) is an excellent
textbook, and I mentioned it in that thread.  I wonder
if you were thinking a meant some *other* book.

Quoting from the thread I linked to:

"""
Clearly, at one end of the spectrum we have books like 'Mathematics for the
Digital Age and Programming in Python' (used at Phillips / Andover, a
college prep high school, by the authors).

At the other end of the spectrum we have textbooks showing
little-to-no-awareness of the doors one could be opening in high school, to
the prospective CS major. We can score them accordingly, and what I'm
looking for is criteria.

A high school math course should open as many doors as practical and being
CS-friendly in this day and age is an important criterion. I'm telling
parents what they can look for, even if teachers don't seem to care. Look
for examples of functions that are non-numeric in nature.
"""

http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=9391791

Related:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mathfuture/GszzTxcxEoE

Kirby


On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:59 AM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> An excellent textbook, mentioned (by me) recently in this ongoing thread:
>>
>> http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2620194
>>
>> Kirby
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:54 PM, roberto <roberto03 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> wow, I didn't know that, thanks for sharing
>>>
>>> Roberto
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Litvin <litvin at skylit.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Roberto,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for recommending our *Math and Python* book, but your amazon
>>>> link is to the old edition.
>>>> The current edition is at
>>>> http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Digital-Age-Programming-Python/dp/0982477546, also available at
>>>> www.skylit.com.
>>>>
>>>> Gary Litvin
>>>>
>>>>
>
>
> --
> Roberto
>
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