RfD: FSFe-education [FSFE projects]

MJ Ray markj at cloaked.freeserve.co.uk
Wed May 23 10:28:34 UTC 2001


Christian Selig <christian at newopenness.de> writes:

> Okay, this is the whole point. Teach concepts, not programs. I've been
> preaching this for two years. [...]

I've been preaching this for 10.  Others for longer.  Welcome to the
fold.

(I also try to preach something similar in Statistics because it's no
use showing students how to do "cookbook stats" because they'll find
their first real-world project and violate half of the assumptions of
the test that they're using.  I think it's analogous.)

-- 
MJR



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