Attachment to a leader and/or parent seems to be a deep part of human personality. Especially in the first decade or two of life. I suppose a teacher-at-the-front could be replaced by a soft robot. But that's not a really large change in the method of education.
I do remember when learning calculus that I didn't really know integration and differentiation until I'd worked through a dozen or two of the homework problems. I could understand in class and nod my head, but would not be able to use that knowledge until I'd ground through enough example problems. That paradigm seems to be true for a lot of technical subjects and must be a result of the nature of human cognition.
And the world is getting even more scientific, more technological and more mathematical.
And those who teach writing emphasize that it is necessary to write a lot. A whole lot.
Recently popular has been the idea that to master any subject whatever requires 10,000 hours of practice. That idea has been attacked and taken down a peg, but not defeated; practice alone is never enough.
Attachment to a leader and/or parent seems to be a deep part of human personality. Especially in the first decade or two of life. I suppose a teacher-at-the-front could be replaced by a soft robot. But that's not a really large change in the method of education.
I do remember when learning calculus that I didn't really know integration and differentiation until I'd worked through a dozen or two of the homework problems. I could understand in class and nod my head, but would not be able to use that knowledge until I'd ground through enough example problems. That paradigm seems to be true for a lot of technical subjects and must be a result of the nature of human cognition.
And the world is getting even more scientific, more technological and more mathematical.
And those who teach writing emphasize that it is necessary to write a lot. A whole lot.
Recently popular has been the idea that to master any subject whatever requires 10,000 hours of practice. That idea has been attacked and taken down a peg, but not defeated; practice <i>alone</i> is never enough.
Writing code in a commercial IT shop in the late seventies, the manager though he was progressive since he guaranteed that we could get as many as one compilation per day. We'd submit punched cards and get back the card deck and a compile listing when it was done.
Hardware was less reliable, occasionally coming up with the wrong results. One time the result was wrong because the printer had printed the wrong digit! I'd spent hours desk checking the code only to find the code was right. So I ran it again.
It was much more normal for managers to really not know what a computer really is. This included programming and IT managers. One very accomplished boss asked me, in a meeting, how long it took to write a program. What kind of program? I asked. Oh, a general program. That put me in a no-win situation. If I said a year, he'd pop a cork and get all red-faced. If I said two weeks, he'd hold me to it no matter what the program was supposed to do.
Harbison and Steele has much better explanations than K&R.
The Fueur book taught me a lot about C declarations. Declarations are that part of C language that is them most unnecessarily difficult.
You asked about a slightly different question, best practices. But in the real world you'll run into a lot of code that practices below that level.
One trick that works well for a limited set of situations: When reading a math or science textbook chapter, read the questions before the text of the chapter. The keywords in the questions will clue you in to the keywords of the chapter.
If the company goes belly up that can be a good point for you. You left "Because it was becoming clear the company could not survive." Don't put all the blame on the managers, put a lot of blame on their competitors and customers. If the company is alive but on the ropes, the same tactic can be used.
I've been using Lastpass for years now. It's good but not perfect. Occasionally I have to fiddle with it. There are a few web sites that Lastpass can't deal with. I opt for big passwords so I'm sure it's more secure than trying to use my memory and/or some ad hoc scheme.
I haven't done an organized comparison of password managers.
2. I left because I got old. Twelve hours of concentration just isn't worth it any more.