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If you are going to limit learning to resources perfectly catered to your level of knowledge, then you are missing out on a lot. It's really not hard to go loo
by nightski 10y ago
If you are going to limit learning to resources perfectly catered to your level of knowledge, then you are missing out on a lot. It's really not hard to go look up a few terms.
- shakna 10y agoAnd equally, if you delve blindly in areas where you don't have the knowledge, you're going to be seriously handicapped. We don't teach physics to those who have never been exposed to algebra, and you can't explain the half life of uranium to someone who doesn't know what an atom is. In practice, we can and do explain... By giving the basics. The beginner who tries to understand the Dragon Book, will get somewhere. They will be enhanced. But nearly as much as if they'd read Lisp In Small Pieces. I have plenty of technical manuals on my shelves. Once, they were utterly useless. Knowledge made them tools. But a beginner can't just leap into Intel's x86 instruction manual and expect it will help, if they don't understand registers, pointers, and that a cpu has a cache.
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