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While I agree "following instructions" !== "algorithm", it does serve as a decent bit of context to people who are COMPLETELY unfamiliar with computing let alon
by ponco 10y ago
While I agree "following instructions" !== "algorithm", it does serve as a decent bit of context to people who are COMPLETELY unfamiliar with computing let alone programming.
- ankurdhama 10y agoIt provides them incorrect context, if you really want to provide context then start with long addition which everyone understands and tell them that it was the first algorithm they learned. Physical activities are not algorithms, algorithms are sequence of calculations on data and there are many many examples that people know about that they learned in elementary mathematics and that can serve as the proper context.