tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9054609445298212106.post8641355888186982617..comments2018-10-19T00:54:01.687+10:30Comments on A Hacker's Craic: The problem with teaching abstractionsNotZedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09469760565180198154noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9054609445298212106.post-48919438651130206122011-09-08T14:59:30.888+09:302011-09-08T14:59:30.888+09:30Yes, you do point to a lot of nice links :-) No ar...Yes, you do point to a lot of nice links :-) No arguments there.Sankarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13337547916077401549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9054609445298212106.post-72899078261433090722011-09-08T09:26:54.428+09:302011-09-08T09:26:54.428+09:30sankar: I do plenty of work dumping some pretty go...sankar: I do plenty of work dumping some pretty good code and lots of hints and tips for hacking into this blog. I'm sure I can rant once in a while.<br /><br />But your first paragraph was my point entirely - learning has become so abstracted from the hardware, people have no idea what it's doing. They don't even know how fast it is.<br /><br />This isn't normally a big deal, NotZedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09469760565180198154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9054609445298212106.post-76317445619223434912011-09-08T09:10:28.415+09:302011-09-08T09:10:28.415+09:30mbein - it's not so much the really stupid que...mbein - it's not so much the really stupid questions - they're a bit entertaining and I can just leave those.<br /><br />It's the ones where someone asks a question showing they don't really know what they're doing, yet refuse your answer since they know better than anyone else ... or keep asking more questions demonstrating they aren't really interested in the answers butNotZedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09469760565180198154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9054609445298212106.post-77884805477006478952011-09-07T23:56:12.539+09:302011-09-07T23:56:12.539+09:30you never know how old they are. I remember quite ...you never know how old they are. I remember quite well how happy I was as someone (who was actually a physics prof) cared to answer my "stupid" question about matrix rotation in 3d space. At this time i didn't even knew what sin or cos are. Every time i get a somewhat "stupid" question i try to remind myself of that.mbienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13499777062253911679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9054609445298212106.post-73277952387787016752011-09-07T17:56:23.012+09:302011-09-07T17:56:23.012+09:30One of the reasons for students not being aware of...One of the reasons for students not being aware of "Under the hood" things is that because, most of the students program in Python, Javascript or C# these days (you know that people say Java is dead ;-) ) <br /><br />Learning to implement an app. using Javascript and hosting it in Google AppEngine will give money from users, rather than trying to learn traversing matrixes column-wise Sankarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13337547916077401549noreply@blogger.com