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Re:Mystery Languages by kevmo314 on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @10:30PM (#17511752)
> Also, your job is not to break one thing, but rather to break the difference between multiple things. That kind of «differential reasoning» is its own separate sort of activity.

This seems like splitting hairs. You could wrap this differential reasoning assignment in a function that returns true iff the outputs are different and achieve the same CTF-style behavior. The only difference here is that students get one assignment at a time instead.

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Re:Mystery Languages by skrishnamurthi on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @10:59PM (#17511858)
Reductionist theories don't work out that way in practice, but sure: Build it, teach it, and then I'd be happy to talk about your experience and how the difference is only "splitting hairs".
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