Silicon Forest Maths

Kirby Urner
3 min readApr 30

We’ve known for a long time, here in the Silicon Forest, that high school maths (using the UK’s plural form) needs to converge with coding, as in computer programming. Below, we see what that looks like learning Julia:

Figure 1: high school desktop

Allen B. Downey, a co-author of Think Julia, is likewise an author of Think Python. It’s not either or with these languages, plus we’re allowed to dabble without committing to attaining mastery. “Try before you…