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I like working with pen and paper in programming a lot. And I agree that it helps for learning and really understanding. But at some point, if you want to educ
by hutzlibu 5y ago
I like working with pen and paper in programming a lot. And I agree that it helps for learning and really understanding.
But at some point, if you want to educate people to build real working products, in the real world - and this is what the vast majority of CS students are going to do - then you have to teach also exactly this. How to build things for real and not just thinking about how to build things.
- nobody0 5y agoYeah, I guess the tension between pen/paper and concrete computer programming is elastic, somehow it depends on the person's willingness to have them growing or static. I appreciate more about some theory when I've programmed mechanically for a while. And I also found writing some code to be relieving when I drank too much theoretical kool-aid.