Some students will insist to start concrete before abstraction because it is easier. They are inviting you to also be wrong like they are.
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@dibblego How to even introduce an abstraction without motivating it?
@sritchie I cannot think of a more useless motivation than concrete examples. So I don't know how to answer this question.
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@dibblego Okay, maybe I’m just misinterpreting. What’s a better motivation, assuming we’re talking about teaching a software developer -
@sritchie The answer to this does not fit in a tweet, but it does fit in a git repository. https://github.com/NICTA/course - Show replies
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@dibblego though perhaps that’s too concrete.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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