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Interesting, as someone who loves math learning programming as an extension of math made a lot of sense. It also explains why other people I know struggled to l
by bognition 5y ago
Interesting, as someone who loves math learning programming as an extension of math made a lot of sense. It also explains why other people I know struggled to learning to program in the same setting, but later we’re able to thrive given a different curriculum.
- drewcoo 5y agoThen you may as well also ask "why did we ever think the kind of math you learned first didn't matter?" It's a ridiculous straw man, deals with symptoms instead of problems, and leads to an "everyone has an opinion" situation beyond any usefulness.
- smasher164 5y agoThis applies beyond introductory programming. We faced this in our university's Machine Learning course. The same course was taught both to students from the engineering school, which requires a certain number of math courses (Linear Algebra, Calculus, etc.), and in the general college, which had much fewer requirements. The professor was forced to stay surface-level on the math, so the coursework was a task of glueing together code from scikit-learn. Unfortunately, the exams were much easier if you had the mathematical intuition.