On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Bill <bill_nos...@noway.net> wrote: > I tried pretty hard not to say that. I said they needed some "mathematical > sophistication"--not actual mathematics. My error was using that expression > among an audience not so familiar with that terminology. That said, I think > I would have a hard time explaining polymorphism and vtables to a student > who had not grasped the distributive property of multiplication over > addition. > You can try, and let me know how it goes for you... I've been there.
I don't know about vtables as needing to be in ANY programming course. They're part of a "let's dive into the internals of C++" course. You certainly don't need them to understand how things work in Python, because they don't exist; and I'm doubtful that you need to explain them even to C++ programmers. Polymorphism... actually, I could explain that to a three year old. "Eat your broccoli" "Eat your dessert" See? Polymorphism. The same operation being done to different things and having different results. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
