Sergey Organov wrote: > Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Sergey Organov wrote: > >> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> > Compound operations soon become basic operations in the mind of an > >> > expert. > >> > > >> > Lifting your feet, and then landing your feet might be basic operations > >> > when you are 1 yo, but soon enough they become "walking". > >> > >> [caveat: please don't take the rest of this post too seriously] > >> > >> Yeah, using another name for a compound is yet another option indeed. > >> "git cretching"? > >> > >> > Similarly checking out a commit and then cherry-picking a sequence of > >> > commits while resolving conflicts becomes "rebasing". > >> > >> This is very questionable example. Please don't let me even start on > >> this. > > > > You don't need to validate the concept, but chunking is an established > > concept in cognitive pshychology [1]. It's how humans learn (and > > possibly machines too). > > The urdge to dive into the muddy waters of psychology to support your > example, where pure logic should probably have sufficed, makes the > example only even more suspect. Suspect to you, maybe, not to anyone who works in the teaching industry, where this concept is well understood and accepted. Cheers. -- Felipe Contreras
