[ExI] focus

David Lubkin lubkin at unreasonable.com
Mon Aug 27 20:11:04 UTC 2018


I wrote:

>There are many skills required to be good at programming. Essential 
>ones that I think current kids are not taught is [sic] rigorous 
>deductive reasoning, precision in thought, attention to detail, and 
>objective consideration of evidence.

Bill W replied:

>Why would you limit these skills to programmers?  These are the very 
>foundations of scientific thinking.

Uh, because I was answering Spike's question, which was solely about 
programmers....


-- David.






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