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Bruno Mailly
Mon, 25 Apr 2022 06:51:57 GMT

For such (most) people, reality is social, rather than something you understand/ control.

Reminiscent of [CODING HORROR] Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats

Ask programming students what a trivial code snippet of an unknown language does.

Some form a consistent model.
Right or wrong, these can learn programming.

Others imagine a different working every time they encounter the same instruction.
These will fail no matter what.
I suspect they treat it as a discussion, where repeating a question means a new answer is wanted.

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