> The argument about knowing how and when to apply formulas misses the fact that practice in applying those formulas is essential to competence. > I am coming

> The argument about knowing how and when to apply formulas misses the fact that practice in applying those formulas is essential to competence. > I am coming late to this topic, and I wanted to make exactly this point that @kaitai made in a thread, in one of the many threads about memorisation vs. critical understanding.... This is the (moot) point that people seem to be missing here, which is surprising, because most of us here do seem to think highly about "code katas" or the "10,000 hour rule" or "immersion into code/algorithms" which is all about the above.