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You vastly overestimate people's ability to problem-solve in real time. I've encountered people who had problems understanding that putting one...

Giving people actual projects to do is definitely a good thing, but only if you have enough existing understanding to undertake it. It might also...

I just mean understanding it semantically, as like A << B puts B into A and it just kind of "works", whereas printf("my number %g", B) has...

This is a very important, yet rarely discussed, step in becoming a true programmer. The discussion of which language is "best", which language...