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Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy” (2009)
While working on an article for the Monad.Reader, I’ve had the opportunity to think about how people learn and gain intuition for abstraction, and the implications for pedagogy. The heart of …
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 2021 | Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy” (2009) by Tomte | 101 | 79 |
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