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I'm torn on this. As somebody who is too stupid to goto MIT, I chuckle thinking of spoon-feeding how to use Git or a terminal to MIT students. It's useful infor
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
I'm torn on this. As somebody who is too stupid to goto MIT, I chuckle thinking of spoon-feeding how to use Git or a terminal to MIT students. It's useful information but not everything useful needs a sit-down, by-the-numbers, "this is how you branch" discussion. I also wonder if it does more harm than good teaching these topics so matter-of-factly since it's only the current programming zeitgeist anyway. It only further entrenches the "way things are". Like depriving children of that impactful exploratory phase and sticking them into a rigid box. In any case- won't these topics propagate natually from good professors using them themselves? What do I know, I'm too stupid to attend MIT.
- bordercases 4y agoThe field has grown to the point that if you don't teach it top down no one will have the skills to be dangerous until the end of their degree. And projects that shorten the size of that stack still come out of MIT.
- llanowarelves 4y agoIf MIT students are really so smart then they can probably learn what to learn on their own. If they can't, then they aren't so smart.