Comment by bonyen

Upvoted for an interesting take, even though I disagree with some of it.

I took 61A from bh. Personally, I agree with bh's statement that you quoted. Where I encountered difficulty was applying the ideas in a different context (e.g. C or Java). Brian spent time addressing this precise difficulty (in the last lecture or so), but it still wasn't enough for me.

I do heartily agree with you calling out "the pathological worship of the abstract over the concrete". Knuth's Concrete Mathematics was also bucking this trend (e.g. https://youtu.be/GmpxxC5tBck?si=tRHQmuA4a-Hapogq&t=78). I'm curious, once you came to this opinion/realization, how did your teaching/learning change?