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Emile comments on Learning by Doing - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: adamzerner 24 March 2015 01:56AM

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Comment author: Emile 24 March 2015 12:22:40PM 0 points [-]

As far as I can tell, folks either learn everything beyond the mechanics and algorithms of programming from your seniors in the workplace or discover it for themself.

... or from Stack Overflow / Wikipedia, no? When encountering a difficult problem, one can either ask someone more knowledgeable, figure it out himself, or look it up on the internet.

Comment author: imuli 24 March 2015 03:57:58PM 0 points [-]

I'm talking about things on the level of selecting which concepts are necessary and useful to implement in a system or higher. At the simplest that's recognizing that you have three types of things that have arbitrary attributes attached and implementing an underlying thing-with-arbitrary-attributes type instead of three special cases. You tend to get that kind of review from people with whom you share a project and a social relationship such that they can tell you what you're doing wrong without offense.