Ideas in this flowchart

• The proper aim is practical understanding of the material for those who will build tomorrow’s technology.
• The material should be understood in terms of what it means and how it impacts the learner’s discipline.
• Becoming an expert theorem prover is not required.
• Deriving closed-form expressions for the sizes of trees with esoteric properties is not required.
• Basic fluency with each topic area is an appropriate objective.
• An intuition about when each topic can be applied is an appropriate objective.
• These objectives apply to most people who would go forward and build tomorrow’s technology.