TITLE: Matthias, Speak to My Students
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: February 21, 2015 11:11 AM
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I love this answer from Matthias Felleisen on
<A HREF="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2015-February/065998.html">
        the Racket users mailing list</A>
today:

<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
 The book emphasizes systematic design.  You can solve this specific
 problem with brute force regular-expression matching in a few lines
 of code.  The question is whether you want to learn to solve
 problems or copy code from mailing lists and StackOverflow without
 understanding what's really going on.
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Students today aren't much different from the students in the good
old days.  But the tools and information so readily available to
them make it a lot easier for them to indulge their baser urges.
In the good old days, we had to work hard to get good grades
<EM>and</EM> not understand what we were doing. 
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