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I'm pretty sure I wasn't smart enough to understand that when I was eight years old.
by rgrieselhuber 16y ago
I'm pretty sure I wasn't smart enough to understand that when I was eight years old.
- KirinDave 16y agoYou might surprise yourself. I am not a programmer of any singular talent, but I understood foldl when I was 9. I understood it in terms of Pascal and iteration, but the knowledge was there.
- rflrob 16y agoWhat really bothers me about this article is that at no point are there actually any eight year-olds. It's one thing to say "An eight year-old could understand this", and another to have a loose transcript of an actual conversation, à la "Explaining REST to my Wife" ( http://tomayko.com/writings/rest-to-my-wife http://tomayko.com/writings/rest-to-my-wife ) or "The Socratic Method", where the author teaches binary to third graders ( http://www.garlikov.com/Soc_Meth.html http://www.garlikov.com/Soc_Meth.html )