I couldn't disagree more. It's very elitist to say that interested minds shouldn't pursue the field you're in because they're asking the wrong questions. The be

I couldn't disagree more. It's very elitist to say that interested minds shouldn't pursue the field you're in because they're asking the wrong questions. The better and more productive approach would be to educate them by answering their question and at the same time pointing out the preferred way to look at it. I know when I was first starting out there were obvious cliffs that I confronted when growing as a developer. The first cliff is going from syntax to understanding how to piece syntax together. Then further down the line is learning best practices and how more seasoned developers do things. This is something that you can only learn from practice and by asking questions on sites such as Stack Overflow and your peers. How else are you going to learn?