Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: CS instead of math? Date: 3 Jun 2016 10:38:03 GMT Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <573fb25c.33979790@nntp2.rawbw.com> <0c7d2fa2-021e-4ae1-b6d6-bc352dfa2a76@googlegroups.com> <57455187.10218673@nntp2.rawbw.com> <5748866a.9280975@nntp2.rawbw.com> <574dc979.9648864@nntp2.rawbw.com> <575073c4.11440310@nntp2.rawbw.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 7XBGobr3vBsFTaFsKbm8vQf9ahHeKyEwCj0yKw1D8r1Np29qRi Cancel-Lock: sha1:34aMVV1jAh3Bf5iDxVZEbhJX0iM= User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:164388 On Thu, 02 Jun 2016 20:05:51 -0400, J. Clarke wrote: > So you're saying that the engineering department should run its own > calculus course and quit bothering the math department? Absolutely, given the right person teaching it. At my PPOE (until last December) CS students were taught maths 'in house' by a maths expert who would teach what was wanted/needed, rather than what they thought was 'right'. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org