• Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    If you didn’t know the answer, it’s a critical thinking exercise? Not at all.

    Answering this question relies completely on understanding programming. A correct answer cannot be reached without an understanding of programming.

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      7 months ago

      A correct answer cannot be reached without an understanding of programming.

      Yes. It does not follow, though, that knowledge of programming always leads to a correct answer. Since you seem like someone who might appreciate a formal logical description, you are affirming the consequent here.

      Again, without sufficient critical thinking one might just miss the detail that “Monday” is a string and not a custom unit-of-time object, inheriting from Day.

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        7 months ago

        But you can only mistake it as a custom object of you understand how coding works. I’m not saying an understanding will prevent you from being wrong, I’m saying having critical thinking will not reach the answer if you don’t have an understanding.