Re: Dumbing down?

In the last episode, on Thursday 24 May 2007 21:00, Ken Tilton wrote:



Jeff Rollin wrote:
A friend (who should know better than I) and myself both agree that an
understanding of maths is necessary to be able to program.

So why do so many introductory textbooks insist that it isn't?

Sorry, point of information: you and your friend agreeing on X has
exactly what power over X's truth?

hth,kt


Heh. As I've already had to admit, that was a lousy metric to have started
out with.

A better question might be, "what are the arguments for and against a good
understanding of maths being necessary to programming?

Jeff.
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