David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of popular web framework Ruby on Rails, does something similar to what this post discusses with his On Writing Software Well series.
make displays of poisonous mushrooms to teach kids what not to eat;
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In all other instances, learning is through osmosis, through observation and imitation.
It seems to me that in general, “don’t do X” requires teaching. when X is very harmful. If it is slightly harmful it’s fine if the kid tries it, notices that it’s harmful, and doesn’t try it again. But if it is very harmful, that doesn’t really work. And I don’t see how it can be learned through observation.
David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of popular web framework Ruby on Rails, does something similar to what this post discusses with his On Writing Software Well series.
It seems to me that in general, “don’t do X” requires teaching. when X is very harmful. If it is slightly harmful it’s fine if the kid tries it, notices that it’s harmful, and doesn’t try it again. But if it is very harmful, that doesn’t really work. And I don’t see how it can be learned through observation.