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softbuilder • today at 4:10 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I would love to see things flipped around: Teach calculus as code, and work in the concepts after. This looks like a conventional approach with code tacked on after. What I see here: concept -> math notation -> code. I'd go: code -> concept -> math notation.


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veqq • today at 4:24 PM

There are nice APL- and J-based math books with this approach. APL's inventor's main goal was improving mathematics instruction.

golbanno • today at 8:45 PM

Why would that be better?