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| May 20, 2022 at 14:49 | comment | added | Victor Eijkhout | I sympathize with your point of view, but ask yourself what the other options are. Either your teacher imposes no style at all, or exposes you to all styles. Given that as a learner you are unlikely to develop a good style from scratch, I would say that learning at least one consistent style from a teacher is preferable. | |
| May 20, 2022 at 2:54 | comment | added | Rushi | @BenI. The short (& not v useful) answer is things like arxiv.org/pdf/math/0209332. And aleteya.cs.buap.mx/~jlavalle/papers/wegner/strong-cct.pdf. But I hasten to add: I'm as uneasy quoting these (without loud grunts!) as I would be saying Drinking detergent cures covid. The more relevant arguments are considerably longer. And we can reserve it for chat (if you wish). For here just this much: Your position State your philosophy underneath your facts has serious downsides. Students don't typically want high truth but high grades — not cseducator notwithstanding 😈 | |
| May 20, 2022 at 2:08 | comment | added | Ben I.♦ | @Rusi I'm not sure what you mean. There's plenty of objective stuff on the mathier side of the field. Information theory certainly seems pretty objective. There are strict limits on how compressed any information can be encoded. The halting problem also seems pretty objective. | |
| May 20, 2022 at 0:59 | comment | added | Rushi | I've upvoted for the sentiment. But do realize what a deep problem you're unearthing. Newell&Simon described CS as a Science of the Artificial. Which implies There are no objective truths here. So then what/how do we teachers teach? | |
| May 19, 2022 at 21:14 | comment | added | Ben I.♦ | I often present these sorts of preferences as "Most of you don't yet have a philosophy about how to approach __. I am going to share my philosophy with you in this course, and I will also share with you why I think it is so valuable. I ask you to abide by it here. Perhaps after you've lived with it, you'll find value in my approach and wish to take it with you. However, if you later decide that this approach isn't for you, that's fine, too. Believe me, I won't be offended. At that point, at least you'll definitely understand what you're rejecting, and that is also a benefit." | |
| May 19, 2022 at 20:06 | history | answered | NOT CSEducator | CC BY-SA 4.0 |