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I think your three steps are basically Scientology's "Education Tech." :) But seriously, it's sort of common sense. I think the key is does the subject engage y

I think your three steps are basically Scientology's "Education Tech." :) But seriously, it's sort of common sense. I think the key is does the subject engage you enough to want to do all that work? If not then either the presentation should change or maybe you're not into it or not ready to be into it. Nevertheless, what's really wrong with starting with basic assembler, like on MIPS or something. You don't have any of these kinds of expressions like "a = b + c" to confuse people! Knuth is without parallel but I think for the beginner that example you cited might be too abstract for many newcomers, they may have trouble seeing that associated with how the "blinky light box" really works. :) But sure, using any language which uses different semantics for settings variables than simply algebraic looking statements would probably solve that problem.

zachrose 14y ago
I had the same thought. Here's Tom Cruise explaining Study Technology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S800ilR9c4&feature=youtube_gdata_player http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S800ilR9c4&feature=youtu...
- mr0wl 14y ago
  Here is what I believe to be a more appropriate introduction to "study tech" http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/StudyTech/ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/StudyTech/
  - dinkumthinkum 14y ago
    This is actually one of my favorite little places to read up on Scientology. :) He has great info!
skeltoac 14y ago
OP here. You correctly spotted Hubbard's "Study Tech", a modern formalization of common-sense learning habits. It is a good system independent of the rest of his work. I omitted the credit because many readers would hasten to generalize (i.e. commit an association fallacy[1]) and dismiss the system as inherently crazy. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
- dinkumthinkum 14y ago
  Ah yes, Study Tech, I had a total brain freeze on that one. :)

zachrose 14y ago

I had the same thought. Here's Tom Cruise explaining Study Technology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S800ilR9c4&feature=youtube_gdata_player http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S800ilR9c4&feature=youtu...

mr0wl 14y ago
Here is what I believe to be a more appropriate introduction to "study tech" http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/StudyTech/ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/StudyTech/
- dinkumthinkum 14y ago
  This is actually one of my favorite little places to read up on Scientology. :) He has great info!

skeltoac 14y ago

OP here. You correctly spotted Hubbard's "Study Tech", a modern formalization of common-sense learning habits. It is a good system independent of the rest of his work. I omitted the credit because many readers would hasten to generalize (i.e. commit an association fallacy[1]) and dismiss the system as inherently crazy. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy

dinkumthinkum 14y ago
Ah yes, Study Tech, I had a total brain freeze on that one. :)