buckpassing

if anyone is looking for a read on many-valued or 'fuzzy' logics you might try susan haack's 'deviant logic, fuzzy logic'

(http://www.amazon.com/Deviant-Logic-Fuzzy-Beyond-Formalism/d...)

its not incredibly exhaustive, but i liked it at the time i read it. ymmv.

"that's one of the only two books I've actually read before deciding literature is boring/waste of time"

man i feel so sorry for you. its amazing how sweeping ignorance is so easily transformed into arrogance.

as I understand you, you think learning a programming language will do more good for 90% of students than being exposed to chemistry, physics, algebra, history, literature, and whatever other nonesense, which I take you to mean other things commonly studied in high school like art, psychology, a foreign language, economics, etc.

where, may I ask, did you ever hear about Hooke's law, chemical bonds, quadratics or Kakfa? You're reference to these things, in the hopes they'd support your rather silly claim, shows that a multi-faceted education is a good thing. If you weren't the recipient of such an education, you couldn't prove your point.

problem solving, logic, etc can be taught outside of programming. I was taught first order logic through a philosophy course. it seems like you think programming can teach you all the important forms of reasoning.

Agreed. If you're too lazy to start from scratch you can start with any old template and vandalize away to your hearts content.