@futurebird I’m not in the education loop. But I saw this with some of the new hires for the last 5-10 years. Rightly or wrongly, I attributed this to the teaching to test mentality. The kids are taught that there are always “right” answers, you cannot figure them out yourself you just have to ask the teacher and they will give it to you. There isn’t time to teach creative problem solving.

@futurebird @david_chisnall As a retired coder. The job description hasn’t changed. Just the ratios on tasks performed. Much more reading code vs lots less writing actual lines of code. I like the sound of this debugging approach, as it forces reading and understanding. I have long said the CS courses needed more reading/reviewing code. Like a large part of traditional art courses teach art “criticism”. You have to be able to tell “good” art from “ bad” art to be able to judge if you work is achieving the goals you want from it. The same applies to code.