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By: Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy — The Endeavour

Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy — The Endeavour — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:42:01 +0000

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By: John

John — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:34:38 +0000

@Jared: I’ve read the first few pages of Lockhart’s article and enjoyed it, but I haven’t read it all yet.

By: Jared

Jared — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:15:09 +0000

@Vadmyst: wonderful link. Have you read this, John? It even mentions versine and nautical tables.

By: Vadmyst

Vadmyst — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:25:57 +0000

Totally agree. Teaching more mathematics will not do the job. The way how math (and imo all other subject) is teached should be changed. Paul Lockhart is right in his Lament about mathematics.

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By: Jared

Jared — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:52:53 +0000

I think a big problem with students being driven to conform especially in computer science programs is that they often don’t understand how their tools work, for example many ASP.NET developers often don’t have a deep enough understanding of HTML, HTTP, etc. They spend their school time learning shallowly a large framework but they miss a lot of opportunities to dig deeper. Learning new APIs is easy but knowing how to build your own is uncommon. There will always be cases where the framework has a gap and leaks and you have to understand at a deeper level what the framework is doing; in this case the student is unprepared to plug the leak because they’ve only ever been taught how to use Technology X instead of realizing they could have invented X.