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I would honestly think it doesn't matter. Students, like professionals, should be given the world and all of it's resources to generate a solution. If I can jus

• zarzavat 2y ago
  If you always defer to a computer then you never learn to disagree with the computer, you become just as much of an automaton as it. I love LLMs for coding but only because I have the experience to instantly evaluate every suggestion and discard a double-digit percentage of them. If an inexperienced programmer uses Copilot they aren’t going to have the confidence to disagree and it will stunt their development.
• scscsc 2y ago
  Do you also think that primary school students should not be taught, say, multiplication? Because they can, of course, use a calculator. No need to ask them what 3 times 4 is.
• tombert 2y ago
  Does that really parse? There's plenty of things that have definite answers that are a Google search away, but we still expect things be able to do. Did we just stop teaching kids basic spelling because spell check was built into MS Word? No, of course not, because even though spelling has been a more-or-less solved problem for people who already know how to read for the last thirty years, having kids learn to spell helps with their actual comprehension of a subject. Also, if they do not learn the fundamental concepts then they will be able to differentiate a good solution from a bad solution. There's a lot of really shitty code that does technically accomplish the goal that it sets out for, and until you learn the fundamentals that fact won't be clear.