Recently I heard a speaker in Acapulco telling us that in France, the Engineering students, asked for the content experts advice, more than to the pure mathematicians that taught them their basic math in college. Those were Control Engineering students. I wonder what is the case for Software Engineering students.
I connect this idea with the New Mathematics catastrophe in the US as presented by Morris Kline in his classic book: Why Johnny can't add? I will ask if Johnny can program? I will venture yes as the answer. When kids in the US, granted led by a lot of clueless teachers, were lost in the intricacies of stating clearly what you mean, they were getting ready for the difficult task of talking to computers.
French kids have made great video games, and I suppose this result has to do with their mathematics training.
I worked close to twenty years in Puebla, Mexico. I witnessed how a small group of dedicated mathematicians trained hundreds of Mexican kids in the same way. I am happy to report, that two of those kids are right now in Poland for the Microsoft competition, Imagine Cup. What I do not understand is why they got four or so kids from Acapulco, and one from the State of Mexico? I guess the process of training students for FIFA World Cups, is equally chaotic.
How come: Spain vs. Holland, and Uruguay vs. Germany?
It is hard to predict how each country is to develop, but I believe that a good training in math is important for programmers.
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