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bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey) writes:
>                         But I think it would be a terrible thing to teach
>loop invariants to high school kids.  That's an example of what I call
>"turning computer programming into trigonometry" -- making it boring and
>confusing and full of facts to memorize, instead of an immediate source
>of power.  [Now I'm going to hear from all the irate trig teachers!  :-)]

Bloody right you are.  Your perception of trigonometry may be "boring
and confusing and full of facts to memorize"; if so, that's very sad.
Seems to me that you have missed something important.  You're also
implying your perception is a common perception.  I hope it isn't.
 
But then again, whenever mathematics becomes "boring and confusing 
and full of facts to memorize, instead of an immediate source of 
power" we've all lost, don't you think?  I've spent all my working life
trying to show the opposite.  Have I wasted all that effort, beaten
by a plaititude?

Martyn