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> I'm not sure I'd say teaching someone to do something by hand for which they could use an existing function is "wrong".

I didn't say it was wrong the wrong way to teach. I said the code was wrong. Like, if I removed myself from teaching and I just saw that in a PR, I'd definitely suggest they use enumerate instead.

I'm a huge fan of reimplementing built in functions as a way to learn. I'm learning Clojure right now (like I stopped to write this comment) and I do it all the time. But, I know I'm doing it.

The other thing that's fine is building up to the abstraction. "Let's get the index, now the item. Okay, there's a better way to do this". But you have to do it immediately.

I'm just not a fan of showing someone something, letting it sink in, and then having to go back and correct it.

And while I hope my arguments stand on their own, and I certainly could be wrong, I'm at least not speaking out of complete inexperience. I've spent a decent amount of time teaching people to code, juggle, work at rope courses, and fly airplanes.




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