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Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI

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359 points FromTheArchives | 2 comments | 18 Sep 25 17:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.56s | source
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Imnimo ◴[18 Sep 25 19:05 UTC] No.45293673[source]▶
I looked at the example for computer science basics for a 7th grader interested in food. Explanations include:

"a list can be used for a recipe"

"a set can be used to list all the unique ingredients you need to buy for a week's meals"

"a map can be used for a cookbook"

"a priority queue can be used to manage orders in a busy restaurant kitchen"

"a food-pairing graph can show which ingredients taste good together"

Maybe I'm over-estimating the taste of 7th graders, but I feel like I would get sick of this really quickly.

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raincole ◴[18 Sep 25 22:20 UTC] No.45295729[source]▶
> "a list can be used for a recipe"

I don't even know what it means, tbh. I feel it's going to confuse the hell out of 7th graders.

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kccqzy ◴[18 Sep 25 22:22 UTC] No.45295753[source]▶
How is that difficult to understand? A recipe is an ordered list of steps of what to do. So of course a list can be used for a recipe.

I personally prefer a serious text without bringing in unrelated concepts like food, but this is still understandable.

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1. non_aligned ◴[18 Sep 25 23:34 UTC] No.45296311[source]▶
I think it's just clunky, like "a pencil can be used for a recipe". My first take is "wait, are we cooking a pencil? or stirring with it?"

The first meaning of "use for a recipe" is "use as an ingredient."

But then, it's a pretty weird thing to explain to begin with, approximately every human on the planet knows what the word "list" means. So what does this pseudo-definition add?

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2. a96 ◴[19 Sep 25 07:54 UTC] No.45299047[source]▶
Well, this list (heh) was cs concepts or data structures. Most humans on the planet definitely don't know what a linked list is or how it's used, let alone how it's implemented. The cooking analogy is trying to bridge that gap a little.

I don't think it's good either. You'll mostly get the meaning if you already knew it.