On 12/29/22 09:53, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
Modern mathematics education tries to teach by showing graphs and pictures, instead of formulas and proofs. But, by doing so, it misses the most important point — that mathematics is about abstract thinking. You will never get around the point that it is the abstract thinking that must be taught.
The latter (formulas and proofs in mathematics) is what gave me a head start in programming in high school before I had an formal computer science classes (programming or otherwise).
After just a few hours playing with Basic I was like hmm... I already was taught most of this stuff, this is a way to apply it...
I had liked doing all the proofs in High School geometry. I just had not seen a practical value in them. When I was learning to program I was like wow, this is what all the stuff was for.
So most of my first self taught stuff was related to geometry, but primarily algebra and trigonometry.
But the latter two did not lay the computer programming foundation for me like geometry did.
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