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by jhbadger
3581 days ago
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I think algebra actually hurts learning of programming, at least of the BASIC/FORTRAN/C style syntax. Programming variables don't work like algebra variables. I learned programming before algebra and had no problem with statements like "X=X+1". My brother on the other hand learned algebra before learning programming and a statement like that made no sense to him (what, 0 = 1?). Of course this was because in BASIC (as in many other languages) "=" is used both for assignment and comparison. |
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