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> Yes but that's anecdata against statistics, studies and theories of mind.

I'm using anecdata? You said your argument was just 'intuition' a second ago and then gave some anecdotes about your mates.

Can you reference the statistics, studies and the data supporting the theories of mind?




There's a bizarre adversarial quality in your engagement here. If I implied I didn't know I was speaking anecdata I apologize. However, since the searches in google to find papers which discuss the role of mathematics in computer science education are trivial as are the ones which argue language skills are more important, I really don't see why I have to do this.

If you want to disrate my responses because you feel they lack quality, go ahead. I see little signs you actually want to consider this possibility, where I am open to the question "which is more important, language or maths"

https://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?q=the+role+of+mathemat...

https://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?q=the+role+of+language...

or you could drill down in the royal society review of computer science education

https://royalsociety.org/-/media/policy/projects/computing-e...




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