I had long avoided this thread, coz it started when I was busy with other
stuff, and grew crazy long tentacles while I was busy. Time to catch up.

On 2024-09-24 14:44:12, Didier Kryn wrote:

>        For what regards lessons on  programming languages, like in every
>    matter, I have experienced that the learning is faster and better with
>    lessons and tutorship, at least at the beginning. This is true for ski,
>    and for swimming, and is also true for programming. Why wouldn't it be?

I had to respond to this. For most people, what you say is true. But
since you asked ...

Think I mentioned this before, but my method of learning programming
languages, which has worked well for me for the 100 languages I have used
in my career, is to crack open a reference manual and read it for an
hour.

So when I went to an actual class to learn a languange as part of a
course, I struggled with this whole lessons and tutorship thing. That
part of my brain just plain doesn't work that way. I CAN'T learn a
programming language in one semester, I HAVE to do it in an hour.
Thankfully they let me do just that, skip the lessons, crack open their
text book one hour before the exam.

Never learned to ski, I'm more a "live in the tropics" kind of person.
In the case of swimming, I'm more of a natural, but my mother isn't. In
both cases the "toss 'em in the water, see how they cope" teaching method
was used. Worked fine for me, not for my mother. Toss us both in the
water today, and likely dolphin like me will have to rescue my mother.
Not a recommended method for learning to swim, it just happened to work
for me.

So that's why it wouldn't be better, some of us are just wired
differently.

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