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"I think it may be too overwhelming for students to learn different languages and learn the high level concepts at the same time." That would take literally ye

• mhh__ 6y ago
  I'm currently teaching a friend of mine "Computer Science" (he means programming primarily, but a bit of theory). He showed me his spreadsheet where he laid out his grand plan for the summer, in which he plans on basically covering the whole of CLRS in a week. I explain things and help him write better code when he sends me stuff he's written but it's difficult to best explain that I've spent years getting to the point where I can write good, efficient, code - let alone starting almost genuinely from scratch ("What's a terminal"), and with an all too common disease that I'm going to call "Let you google that for me" There's probably a joke in that he goes to Harvard and I go to a university you've probably never heard of but hey ho
  • jholman 6y ago
    The (old, old) joke is... "You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much."