Understanding the underpinnings is important. But if you want to
learn to fly they don't send you into a shed to build your plane.
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On 12/06/08 16:26, Dennis J Harrison Jr wrote:
>>
>> I think that standing on the shoulders of giants is a much better way
>> to learn. Why go through ALL the same inroads as people who have
>> solved similar problems plenty of times before already?
>
> So you're saying that children should jump straight into post-
> doctoral mathematics because all the simpler stuff has already been proven?
>
> Of course not.
>
> And for the same reason, young programmers need to learn the underpinnings
> of their craft so as, later in their careers, to be able to judge the
> applicability of their high-level tools.
>
> --
> Ron Johnson, Jr.
> Jefferson LA USA
>
> How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled?
> What different abilities do I have?
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