His books, Future Shock (1970), The Third Wave (1980), and Powershift (1990) represent peak prediction literature based on a philosophy that since 1950 we've entered the Third Wave (first wave being neolithic => agriculture, second being agriculture => industrial, third wave being industrial => post-industrial)
If you read this article and got interested in this kind of thing, check out Toffler. Nearly everything he predicted has come true (minus us mostly living in underwater dwellings, which in his defense, hasn't come true YET).
also, just because someone writes poor code doesn't mean they don't know how to write good code - intent isn't always clear, and it's a mistake to assume ignorance based only on the output
Typical interview question (lower-level thinking, remember): List the primitives in JavaScript. (remember)
Better interview question (lower-level thinking, apply): When would you use an object instead of an array in JavaScript?
Really good interview question (higher-level thinking, evaluate): Here's some raw data that we'd like to put in a database, what data structures would you recommend and why?
> Computation is quite important to understanding a problem
Your "problems" are just equations. 3x = 2 is not a problem.
Here's a problem: you and a friend have 15 dollars and would like to enjoy a day at the movies. Movie tickets cost $7.50. Will you have any money to spend on concessions?
The equation that you'd hope a child would produce is something like 7.5 x 2 = 15. And 15-15=0. Ultimately, no there's no money left over for concessions. That's the skill we need to teach. After that whether or not they know how to _compute_ 7.5 x 2 isn't a big deal. Give them a calculator.
It's crazy how indoctrinated we all are thinking equations are problems and teaching kids how to compute is "learning math".
> practicing computation is important in math education
no, 100% no on this -- we have computers that can compute for us, and we have since the 50s
the problem that this company is perpetuating is the idea that humans need to learn how to compute, we don't
we need to learn how to identify that a problem we're facing has a mathematical solution and how to translate the problem into an equation that a computer can solve for us
why does it look like you're trying to teach computation, which is step #2 of "math"
AI and calculators can easily do computation for us, why not take Conrad Wolfram's approach and teach step #1 which is to identify the problem and understand what computation is required to solve it
His books, Future Shock (1970), The Third Wave (1980), and Powershift (1990) represent peak prediction literature based on a philosophy that since 1950 we've entered the Third Wave (first wave being neolithic => agriculture, second being agriculture => industrial, third wave being industrial => post-industrial)
If you read this article and got interested in this kind of thing, check out Toffler. Nearly everything he predicted has come true (minus us mostly living in underwater dwellings, which in his defense, hasn't come true YET).