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Well, they have to figure that out at some point, if they're going to be successful in the field. I guess there could be debate about whether it's good to encourage them to figure it out sooner rather than later.

Really the lesson is probably more "in computing, everything makes sense -- except for the things that don't"?

And everyone's stress level is down, including hers?

Yeah. Learning enough about something new to accomplish *something* with it can be done fairly quickly. Reasonable fluency in a new language takes time, and the more different it is from what has been done before, the more time is required.

I think we discussed this here not too long ago (mid-July?), and I vaguely remember an earlier discussion of how long it would take one to get one's head around object-oriented programming starting from zero. In the July discussion there was one vote for a week at most to learn new stuff, if the learner is competent, but I'm very skeptical about that applying to all "new stuff". I may be paraphrasing out of context, though.

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