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Calculus made easy (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by khannie to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can't except learning the science of abstraction by making it concrete. Exampled are not more than examples and if one field required abstract theory, it is indeed the mathematics.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well, a lot of these points are really more about readability than they are about reducing the abstraction. Smaller, labeled chunks of information are easier to process than larger ones with no anatomy.

But even so, abstractions, especially in programming, are often made because a pattern was noticed between concrete examples. Teaching the abstraction first or even alone does inherently skip a lot of context for why it was made in the first place. Sometimes, you need to know what problem a function is solving before you can truly know the function.

[–] kshade 3 points 7 months ago

Yep, my issue is with the presentation, not the actual content. I've also experience my share of elitism from people who seem to think that you either get it or are too stupid/lazy, there couldn't possibly also be an issue with the teaching methods and notation.