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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: CS education [engineering, mathematics, and computer science]
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Date: 15 Nov 89 23:55:45 GMT
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> In article <34754@regenmeister.uucp> chrisp@regenmeister.uucp (Chris Prael) writes:
>...
>
>First year calculus in not taught for any reason having anything to do
>with the education of mathematicians.  It is taught because the teaching
>of physics and most forms of engineering is crippled without it.  
> 

I must differ. You can now buy a cheap symbolic calculus calculator
which will do everything taught in those entry level courses, and more.
And quicker, and more accurately than you can do it yourself.

But physics does have something to do with it. They teach calculus
that way because of inertia.