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Everything Is Just Functions: 1 week with David Beazley and SICP

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389 points kurinikku | 2 comments | 17 Nov 24 15:07 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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revskill ◴[17 Nov 24 17:28 UTC] No.42165460[source]▶
I think it's a cool book for students.

But for real world programming, the tedious ones is related to validation, parsing and other business logic.

So i prefer a book to help teach CS by using real world codebase to solve real world everyday problem as a software engineer instead.

You can have your cake and eat it.

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lupire ◴[17 Nov 24 17:32 UTC] No.42165474[source]▶
That's like teaching physics via car repair. You'll learn a few ideas, but not much of the science.

It's practical and productive and profitable, which is great, but not really the original goal.

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1. revskill ◴[17 Nov 24 17:38 UTC] No.42165523[source]▶
It's not a surprise that most of students failed and hate abstract algebra right ? I mean to learn the concept, you will need to know more about the concept itself in a real world context.
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2. HKH2 ◴[18 Nov 24 04:52 UTC] No.42169809[source]▶
Highly intelligent people can learn without any real world context (and I'm not one of them). Obviously there are problems with unapplied learning (or learning for learning's sake), but it is certainly possible.