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 (DIR) Post #AqTZhKBpXIZX5wsdHs by dougbarton@mastodon.social
       2025-01-26T13:58:33Z
       
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       @futurebird just so. For over 2,000 years, educated people studied Euclid, The Elements. This was not so much to learn geometry, but rather to learn how to reason well. Which is why it' was such hard work. Learning to program is much the same. Teaching your mind to structure and decompose problems subject to objective criteria of "goodness"Speaking as a system engineer and computer scientist.