[Edu-sig] Python as Application

[Arthur]

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> From: edu-sig-bounces at python.org [mailto:edu-sig-bounces at python.org] On
> Behalf Of Arthur
 
> Clever guy that I am, I reasoned that if I undertook to do something a bit
> more serious - like learning Python  - then what I needed to know to do
> what
> I need to do in VBA would get thrown in for free. Which is pretty much as
> things have worked out.

Sorry to comment on my own comment, again - but I want to expand this
thought a bit.

When looked at from my personal frame of reference and the experience, among
other things, as a business person - it is the old rules that work.

My route to a practical, business-oriented understanding of technology
included - probably as its most important effort - undertaking the effort of
learning abstract mathematics with the help of a multi-paradigm Open Source
programming language. 

If industry wants sharp C# folks, they are not going to get them by turning
CS department into C# training grounds.  They are industry - not their job
to understand that.  It is educators' job to understand that.

Played by what I consider to be the older rules of the game, everybody wins.

Art