[TIP] Talking to a test-is-from-outer-space crowd

[Gary Bernhardt]

On Apr 12, 2011, at 7:34 AM, Mark Sienkiewicz <sienkiew at stsci.edu> wrote:
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> I mostly agree, but not with this part.  You can't teach people by throwing all the complexity at them at once.

Important qualifier: "when they're learning on their own". In a pairing situation, I find that this concern doesn't matter much. (And they'll learn far faster. And they'll see the immediate utility in the thing rather than having to appreciate it as an abstraction.)