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I don't understand your tone. I never said memorization is "bad" or that I "love" critical thinking skills. I disagree that what makes people efficient proble
by bithive123 14y ago
I don't understand your tone. I never said memorization is "bad" or that I "love" critical thinking skills.
I disagree that what makes people efficient problem solvers is having an "inner world of factoids". Knowledge isn't irrelevant, but knowing where to look is key. Sometimes the knowledge is internal, but the CS whiz who jumps into coding his own libraries for everything without having the wisdom to browse the standard documentation first is surely not a model of efficiency.
- kiba 14y agoI disagree that what makes people efficient problem solvers is having an "inner world of factoids". Of course it does matter, because latency of lookup matters. He could spent it one hour googling things up or he can spend one minute remembering something and using it. That requires memorization. The wisdom part to use the standard library instead of implementing something something from scratch is just extra efficiency.