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If you don't actively make the real-world connections to the theory then most students will just memorize the coursework and then forget it later. The number o
by vvanders 6y ago
If you don't actively make the real-world connections to the theory then most students will just memorize the coursework and then forget it later.
The number of times I have to walk through why linear memory access matters, how caches and branch predictors work is staggeringly high. In every single case they all knew the theory but never made the connection to how it applied to the task at hand.
- ZephyrBlu 6y ago> If you don't actively make the real-world connections to the theory then most students will just memorize the coursework and then forget it later This almost feels like an instance of Goodhart's Law [1]: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law