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		lfowles on May 4, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SI... I think it works for the same reason _A Modern Method for Guitar_ works.. by not using a familiar context (tunes/languages), you have another vantage point to help internalize the lesson.

nickpsecurity on May 4, 2016 [–]

That could be. Someone redoing Knuth's stuff with his lessons and modern asm/HLL might create an interesting effect.

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