Gregory Ewing wrote:
Bill wrote:
In my experience, if they do not have the basic (~pre-calc) math
behind them, then learning from a textbook on a programming language,
say, may be a bit beyond them.
Very little mathematical *knowledge* is needed to get started
with programming. You can do a lot of useful things in Python
without even using any arithmetic.
What does seem to correlate is that if you're the sort of
person who finds maths interesting and fun to play with, you're
also likely to take to programming easily. The same kind of
logical thought processes are involved.
I think we are talking about the same people.
But in college, the prerequisite of "at least co-enrolled in pre-calc",
turned out to be the right one (based upon quite a lot of teaching
experience).
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