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Naur's emphasis on "personal advice" reminds me of Bloom's 2 sigma effect https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem

  "the average tutored student was above 98% of the students in the control class"
I guess "personal advice" is teaching the code's theory, and much better than learning from a one-off textbook (i.e. documentation).



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