>> can't remember a single class where a professor actually walked us through the process of figuring something out > This can't really be blamed on the tool o

>> can't remember a single class where a professor actually walked us through the process of figuring something out > This can't really be blamed on the tool of the chalkboard. That is true, of course, but that was not the point. The point is that blackboards do not necessarily produce, or even encourage, good pedagogy. The two things are largely orthogonal. > Writing code is a narrow and constrained tool with much less freedom than writing on paper Yes, I think this is a feature, not a bug. It enforces a certain amount of rigor that blackboards don't. Of course, the language in which the code is written matters a lot.