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that sounds utterly dreadful. computer science is often taught like this; to its folly. imagine a kid learning to speak 'stop just memorizing words, you need
by autokad 9y ago
that sounds utterly dreadful. computer science is often taught like this; to its folly.
imagine a kid learning to speak 'stop just memorizing words, you need to understand how language was derived before you learn how to speak it'.
its completely counter intuitive to how creatures learn. learn easy things, especially those that relate to problems we deal with, and then get deeper into the subject if necessary.
- alasdair_ 9y agoThis would be true if calculating the volume of various shapes was something that kids did for 16 hours a day, every day. Formulae without context are meaningless to most.
- gertef 9y agothe pillars of science are theory and experiment. memorization is a side-effect of these, not a foundation.