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		Turing_Machine on Nov 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Will it rot my students' brains if they use Mathem... Nah. Programming is its own thing. Math is lovely and all, but programming isn't applied mathematics any more than playing the cello is applied physics.

analog31 on Nov 5, 2021 [–]

Sadly as a good physicist and terrible cellist I have to agree.

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