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> This is exactly what math as a subject in school teaches you Does it? My encounters with it at any place of formal education have all been about memorizing a
by solarkraft 5y ago
> This is exactly what math as a subject in school teaches you
Does it? My encounters with it at any place of formal education have all been about memorizing and practicing arbitrary operations. No intuition required.
- Jensson 5y agoYes, every math curriculum teaches you to find the real problem instead of getting distracted by details. For example, you learn that adding together 5 apples with 7 apples is actually the same problem as adding together 5 cows with 7 cows. Math education was always about finding the core most pure representation of problems and learning how to solve those. That kind of thinking is what you need to understand to get good at programming.