January 10, 2020

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The Set of Programmers: How Math Restricts Us

The Set of Programmers: How Math Restricts Us

Let's start a discussion about how we are introducing new developers to programming. Most textbooks, tutorials, and trainings begin by using mathematics lessons to teach newcomers to code. Many course …
Talk Title The Set of Programmers: How Math Restricts Us
Speakers Carol Smith (Program Manager, Microsoft)
Conference Open Source Summit North America
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Location Los Angeles, CA, United States
Date Sep 10-14, 2017
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Let’s start a discussion about how we are introducing new developers to programming. Most textbooks, tutorials, and trainings begin by using mathematics lessons to teach newcomers to code. Many courses on programming require math skills as prerequisites. However, math prowess is not usually an indicator of one’s potential programming abilities, and in fact presents a significant barrier to entry for a lot of people who might otherwise be interested.

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