• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    It relies on critical thinking (meaning thinking about your own thinking), basically, and most students aren’t very good at that.

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      This doesn’t rely on critical thinking. It just relies on understanding what “.length” does, which would’ve been previously covered in the lessons.

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        6 个月前

        Well, both. If you rushed through without recalling that length has specific meaning relative to strings, even though you do know that, that’s a critical thinking failure. But yeah, not knowing strings could do it too.

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          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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            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.