[echelon]

> should only take a few days

This doesn't work for everybody!

Let people learn in the direction that interests them. The highest energy reward function first.

Once they feel rewarded, then let them learn theory. They'll have a deeper appreciation and the stamina to press deeper.

[asow92]

Hard pill to swallow: Doing things that are good for us that we don’t necessarily like is a part of growing up.

[echelon]

Forcing someone to learn something is a quick way to turn them off forever.

[asow92]

Yes, I can see that now that I’ve tried to teach you this point.

[echelon]

Unsubscribe [1].

I get your point. But you can't convince me that teaching binary before the fun parts of programming is the most effective way to bring more people into the subject matter.

It's like trying to onboard game developers with linear algebra before they play around with pygame.

Fun first, rigor once they're hooked on the magic.

[1] (Tongue in cheek, obviously.)

[asow92]

It's not about learning hard things before fun; it's about learning it at all. Many folks, like OP, say that they should never want/need to understand such things at all in their career. That they are superfluous.

Sure, you can do that, but you can't convince me that that's not troubling.