Python in "math through programming" curriculum

[Clifford J. Nelson]

Kirby Urner wrote:
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> Awhile back, Tim Peters recommended 'Concrete Mathematics'
> (Knuth a co-author) as a good example of a "math through
> programming" text book.  I subsequently bought it, and
> had to agree.  So how do we "lower a ladder" to middle
> and high schoolers starting from there?  I think Python
> is part of the answer.
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I don't think Python should be a standard at all, because of
my experience with it on the Mac. Keep the options open for
computer programming languages.

Here are two:

Clean at: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~clean/

Caml at:  http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/

Both of those languages are OOP too, and easier to use than Python.

  Cliff Nelson
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