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Letting a kid hit some fingers and get frustrated can be the best way to prepare him/her to care about listening to an explanation of how to use a hammer. I th
by brlewis 15y ago
Letting a kid hit some fingers and get frustrated can be the best way to prepare him/her to care about listening to an explanation of how to use a hammer. I think the reason I enjoyed SICP so much at MIT was because of my teenage experience banging my head against the limitations of BASIC.
- troels 15y agoNot just for kids either. I realised at some point that one of the best way to learn things is to try, give up and then come back later and try again. By some magical means, the timespan in between will always make it tremendously more intuitive the second time I came around.