> If you want to go around the central objective of the exercise - which is to adapt yourself to solve the problem - at the end you are only cheating yourself.

> If you want to go around the central objective of the exercise - which is to adapt yourself to solve the problem - at the end you are only cheating yourself. So the "central objective" of that problem is not important? And we shouldn't rely/memorize on 1 unique way of problem solving? To understand your correctly, you mean we shouldn't just learn to solve an unique problem, but approach the problem like a general problem solver/thinker? I am used to work on understanding/learning solutions to mathematics questions when I don't know how to solve them myself. And keep on practising similar questions and eventually harder questions to get an A in exams or answering the doubts of my friends. When I have started to do programming nearly a year ago, It's really squeezing my brain hard. So far, I can tell that only one type of mathematics is similar to programming, is those questions that ask us to derive complex equations for n (like big o notation)