[Edu-sig] another edu-sig page textbook (suggesting to AR)
Andre Roberge
andre.roberge at gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 18:12:20 CEST 2009
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:07 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.skylit.com/mathandpython.html
>
> I have desk review copy, think many will appreciate the quasi-seamless
> blend of old and gnu world typographies, i.e. sigma and set notation,
> with concepts of iterator, types, functions etc.
>
Would this be appropriate for high school students, or as a first CS course
for non Computer Science majors ?
André
>
> Reminiscent of 'Concrete Mathematics' though less difficult and
> explicitly Python based.
>
> For those training to read algebra, higher math, this is a friendly
> introduction (no cartoons or comics though -- gets you prepared for
> the somber dryness of the ambient literature).
>
> Kirby
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