Yeah, in our office-discussion at the time I think the claim was something like “Prior to programming, Math Proofs were the best way to Get The Thing, and they were slower and the feedback less clear.”
(My sense is that programming _hasn’t_ deeply given me the thing, until perhaps recently when I started getting more intentional about deliberate debugging practice. But it definitely makes sense that programming would at least open up the possibility of gaining the skill. The main remaining question in my mind is “how much does the skill transfer, by default, if you’re not deliberately trying to transfer it?”)
Yeah, in our office-discussion at the time I think the claim was something like “Prior to programming, Math Proofs were the best way to Get The Thing, and they were slower and the feedback less clear.”
(My sense is that programming _hasn’t_ deeply given me the thing, until perhaps recently when I started getting more intentional about deliberate debugging practice. But it definitely makes sense that programming would at least open up the possibility of gaining the skill. The main remaining question in my mind is “how much does the skill transfer, by default, if you’re not deliberately trying to transfer it?”)