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Re:Tacit knowledge is more important than deliberate practice by IsopropylHarbor on Monday December 13, 2021 @02:27AM (#29537540)
Your comment hit me right in the reality. I’m a uni student currently taking an OOP Cpp course. At times I don’t know what to ask or how to ask it because of the cognitive load. Value of, address at, private member function, pure virtual functions, bah! I’ll get there, eventually.
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Re:Tacit knowledge is more important than deliberate practice by 8note on Monday December 13, 2021 @03:34AM (#29537841)
Those sound like idiosyncrasies of CPP that you shouldn't care about, unless you want detailed expertise in CPP.

... Which is fine if you've got an application in mind, but otherwise, they're a distorted view on the concepts to fit a specific implementation.

Most of those concepts are all describing, "when do you tell somebody where to point?" and "when do you follow the arrows?"

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