[...] you'd have to go far over the school level of maths to get such benefits. Not at all. Even deriving the formula for the sum of the first n positive inte

[...] you'd have to go far over the school level of maths to get such benefits. Not at all. Even deriving the formula for the sum of the first n positive integers is something that requires problem solving skills while not requiring more than school-level maths. Also, given that CS is a part of math, you can't avoid it if you want to learn some mental structures [...] by all means study math, but catching a bit of CS knowledge and programming skills at some point should be a natural consequence of it. Huh? Physics is more a part of mathematics than computer science is. And I don’t understand what you mean by “mental structures”. we actually DID invent a new way of thinking in the last 100 years Could you explain what you mean by that? Anyway, my point was that you can’t argue that everyone should learn programming just because it’s a way to learn problem solving.