On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Bill <bill_nos...@noway.net> wrote: > 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).
Fortunately for the programming world, college isn't when everyone starts. I started coding at six years old. Should I have waited till I had some pre-calc before getting into programming? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
