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>Someone who just draws a complete blank when faced with decomposing a problem like that into parts may not be suited for programming. I feel like the above st
by HiroshiSan 10y ago
>Someone who just draws a complete blank when faced with decomposing a problem like that into parts may not be suited for programming.
I feel like the above statement contradicts what you said.
Mainly because this person may just not like toy problems but like you enjoys "real" problems. Also if it were true that a systematic way of solving a problem couldn't be learned then perhaps they might not be suited for programming. That being said there are books that do teach a systematic way such as How to Solve it by Polya.
- jxramos 10y agoI was just thinking about Polya's suggestion in this context about solving a simpler problem, where toy is the simpler problem, even if just simpler by clearing out all the "cruft" like hackinthebochs mentions.
- paulrpotts 10y agoWell, yeah, I suppose it was a little contradictory. I was not really evaluating her ability to do a real-world programming task (which, note, is not _entirely_ related to some of the stuff one might have to do for a CS degree). With only an e-mail and a phone call to get to know her, I was casting about for some way to evaluate, and ask her to evaluate, whether she had the basics of a systematic approach to problem-solving, or even enjoyed it.