I wanted to share a great talk about teaching computational thinking by Brown Univ. professor Shriram Krishnamurthi. Also excited to see @Max Kreminski here. Your post on problem-solution ordering (https://mkremins.github.io/blog/doors-headaches-intellectual-need/) has strongly influenced how I think about learning and teaching programming. In this talk Prof. Krishnamurthi adds an insight about inductive learning where you go from concrete instances to a generalized understanding (problem-solution ordering) - it is difficult to transfer a concept thus learned to other instances of the same underlying problem. So while inductive learning is essential to understand a problem in the first place, students also need to examine the problem purely in abstract so that they are able to transfer it to any other instance.

Really fun Bootstrap talk! The concrete to abstract reminds me of one of my favorite articles of all time: https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuition-and-the-monad-tutorial-fallacy/

I had read that a long ago, and unless I'm remembering it wrong, you were a lucky student of his? 🙂

I was! So lucky

Yes, I enjoyed that episode.