[Edu-sig] creating an interface vs. using one (Michel Paul)

Arthur ajsiegel at optonline.net
Mon Sep 25 03:11:42 CEST 2006


kirby urner wrote:

> One thing it's good for is showing off Beyond Flatland's Renaissance
> Era perspective, i.e. XYZ instead of just XY.  People are gaga for
> "graphing calculators" but can't even get off the XY plane with their
> sorry methods.  No Polyhedra, no Physical Realism.  VPython is good
> for contrasting a computer-savvy math education with a
> calculators-only approach.  Let's measure the gap, put a price tag on
> it, in terms of future living standards.
>
$1,412.17

Art



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