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You're right about that. Much of what I was taught when I studied CS involved learning by implication. We would be shown how to do something, and were supposed to figure everything out after seeing how that was done, while getting on with the next five things we were seeing demonstrated.

It was more like teaching a child to tie a shoelace and then assuming that he can work out how to tie all the different types of knots needed on a sailing ship than it was actually teaching.