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From: tok@stbimbo.UUCP (Terry Kane)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: programming for math credit - rational
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Date: 4 Dec 90 23:14:52 GMT
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>> 
>aren't writing skills and word processing synonymous in 1990?  If
>students learn problem solving in math then programming is not 
>needed.

I took freshman English classes in 1979.  Can technology have
changed those courses so much that students can use WordPerfect
to write that weekly essay?  Do you mean to tell me that
college bookstore have stopped carrying bluebooks due to
lack of demand?  Whoa DOODZ!  Have I BEEN in a TIME-WARP or WHAT?

And let me ask you about problem solving in math.  What is it
about math that makes programming obsolescent?  I believe
wholeheartedly that programming is an absolute necessity for
the sake of all those professional deprogrammers making a
buck in California, right?  Be smart, droid... think
before you write. 


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