Amen. I have an orgfile with the exact points you just outlined. The discussion over the Jeff Atwood post has been rather poor. I hope this article will help so

Amen. I have an orgfile with the exact points you just outlined. The discussion over the Jeff Atwood post has been rather poor. I hope this article will help sort out some of the main talking points. The plumber metaphor is so weak it's not even funny. We don't teach mathematics to kids so they will all become mathematicians. It's a fundamental tool that lets you solve other problems. Unfortunately you can't use it alone to write programs to tell computers how to solve problems! If everyone just knew a bit, just the primitive bits, then at least they'd have an intuition for the kinds of problems they can use computers to solve and how to go about getting more information when they need it. Bravo and thanks for this article.