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Well, I had helped her with her compiler project a year earlier, but given that we both had experience with lex I'm not sure if we both saw the relevence or not
by spc476 9y ago
Well, I had helped her with her compiler project a year earlier, but given that we both had experience with lex I'm not sure if we both saw the relevence or not. Your other point makes sense.
And your point about hard work really makes since given her background and personality.
- jacobolus 9y agoYou might enjoy Alan Schoenfeld's book Mathematical Problem Solving, which tries to analyze the way that novice problem solvers make a hash of relatively easy 'non-standard' problems, while expert problem solvers prevail, even when the novices have more immediate and direct experience with the required background knowledge for the problem. The biggest difference is that the experts do a lot more planning, introspection, and strategic adjustment along the way, while the novices immediately start down one wrong track and get stuck in the weeds, forgetting what they were trying to do or why.