Where Does Secure Coding Belong In the Curriculum?

[andrews at rbacomm.com (Brad Andrews)]

I had proofs in junior high Geometry too, though I do not recall using  
them outside that class.  I went all the way through differential  
equations, matrix algebra and probability/statistics and I don't  
recall much focus on proofs.  This was in the early 1980s in a good  
school (Illinois), so it wasn't just modern teaching methods that were  
too blame.  I am not sure that the proofs were all that useful for  
understanding some things either, though the logic they taught has  
value that I missed a bit of since I did hit some modern techniques.

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Brad Andrews
RBA Communications
CISM, CSSLP, SANS/GIAC GSEC, GCFW, GCIH, GPCI


Quoting Stephan Neuhaus <Stephan.Neuhaus at disi.unitn.it>:

> On Aug 25, 2009, at 17:35, Benjamin Tomhave wrote:
>
> > You don't teach proofs - not really. The elementary and junior high
> > curriculum generally does not contain anything about proofs
>
> I was talking about college students because that's when I was properly
> taught programming.  That may no longer be true.  But in maths, I *was*
> taught how to do proper proofs in high school (from 7th grade on, when
> we had Geometry). I may have been unusually lucky.