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A lot of people learn best by doing. Some people, especially those who are more math-inclined, probably learn best starting from the abstract.
by ackfoobar 3y ago
A lot of people learn best by doing. Some people, especially those who are more math-inclined, probably learn best starting from the abstract.
- kwant_kiddo 3y agoI can tell you that math people also learn from the concrete. You do not learn math by reading it, but by fighting it.
- ackfoobar 3y agoI learned OCaml, which made programming "click" for me, partly by doing these exercises. Compared to the root comment's "building interesting things", it's definitely more abstract than concrete. https://ocaml.org/problems https://ocaml.org/problems I do see your point though. In the algebra class, I couldn't grok groups from the axioms, without first seeing some concrete examples. But the thing is, math people's "concrete" is already several layers of abstractions removed from reality.
- citrin_ru 3y agoI'm not really math inclined (for me math is a tool I can use for physics/engineering and other areas; I don't like pure math) but I find it very hard to start doing something without some reading books / docs / articles first. I need at least vague understanding of what I do otherwise it feels like a ritual which doesn't help me to learn. I can go in parallel. I'm actually self-taught and my acquired over many years knowledge is fragmented but for each specific fragment I first read then do.