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DaFranker comments on Looking for alteration suggestions for the official Sequences ebook - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: DaFranker 22 October 2012 01:41:46PM 0 points [-]

Yes, I agree.

The IT culture stuff is good, what I think wouldn't pass is specific IT vocabulary or concepts that don't get introduced within the sequences and that is assumed to be understood.

I seem to recall a reference somewhere of object-level vs class-level distinctions, and someone who's never heard about OOP would have no idea that we're basically talking about the programming equivalent of specific emails vs email templates (or "an email", or whatever helps make them understand, but I've found the specifc email vs template example sufficient as a first step for most people I've had to explain this to).