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Does that really parse? There's plenty of things that have definite answers that are a Google search away, but we still expect things be able to do.

Did we just stop teaching kids basic spelling because spell check was built into MS Word? No, of course not, because even though spelling has been a more-or-less solved problem for people who already know how to read for the last thirty years, having kids learn to spell helps with their actual comprehension of a subject.

Also, if they do not learn the fundamental concepts then they will be able to differentiate a good solution from a bad solution. There's a lot of really shitty code that does technically accomplish the goal that it sets out for, and until you learn the fundamentals that fact won't be clear.




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