[fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

[Dwight Schauer]

On 12/29/22 09:53, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal wrote:
> Modern mathematics education tries to teach by showing graphs and 
> pictures, instead of formulas and proofs. But, by doing so, it misses 
> the most important point — that mathematics is about abstract 
> thinking. You will never get around the point that it is the abstract 
> thinking that must be taught.


The latter (formulas and proofs in mathematics) is what gave me a head 
start in programming in high school before I had an formal computer 
science classes (programming or otherwise).

After just a few hours playing with Basic I was like hmm... I already 
was taught most of this stuff, this is a way to apply it...


I had liked doing all the proofs in High School geometry. I just had not 
seen a practical value in them. When I was learning to program I was 
like wow, this is what all the stuff was for.

So most of my first self taught stuff was related to geometry, but 
primarily algebra and trigonometry.


But the latter two did not lay the computer programming foundation for 
me like geometry did.