 Learning? Not like that. (2)
Completely meaningless or not fully thought-out examples are presented there. The simple ones are initially perceived as pleasant, e.g., dog and cat. But why do you assign the attributes 'running' and 'eating' to them?
And then a distinction is made between 'meowing' and 'barking.' Absolutely clear, but what do you do with that? Why do you differentiate? No answer, because the next example immediately follows, which apparently has
nothing to do with the previous one.
It's even worse for us with the 'used goods dealer' example. There, of course, the brand and color are differentiated. If you add the mileage, well, okay. But is the number of seats a relevant factor for a BMW?
Are there still two-seaters from this brand? Don't you get totally confused with 4 to 7 seats, which are also optional? Is the fuel tank size or the current capacity in liters a relevant factor when offering cars?
One gets the feeling that this is a very nice programmer who knows very little about the world of cars. But why does he choose such an example and artificially complicate it?
We thought a used car dealer could use a program like this to record their inventory. When a customer arrives, you can ask them what they're looking for. The number of seats in a BMW will probably rarely exceed four or
five.
Taken from everyday life, however, it would likely be the brand, the type, and possibly even the color. Why the hell doesn't our explainer use the obvious criteria? The examples with 'dog' and 'cat' go in a similarly wrong
direction.
It goes on like this with the examples. It's said that a car's primary function is to display the mileage. So we actually use cars for other reasons.
Mind you, the possibility of the used car trade, of quickly finding a specific car with the help of a program, was something we had thought up. In the example in the video, we still don't know where the journey is going.
Sorry, but at this point our thoughts have completely wandered. The topic of 'cars' has drawn us too deeply into our world of interests. A typical case of digression, usually associated with a considerable interruption of the
actual learning process.
So, back to the actual topic of this book, let's imagine for a moment that a programmer meets a seasoned engineer, say, from Porsche. And the wants to convince them to adopt a more software-oriented approach.
Do we really need to describe the dilemma that follows any further? If there's a certain class of people who clearly can't even adjust to the normality of everyday life, what should we expect from this conversation with
deadline-stressed engineers?
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