in reply to Should a Socratic Dialogue be attempted?
My question is: Are we helping people like this by providing the answer, or should we attempt to teach them to think like a programmer by asking a series of questions, leading the original questioner to find the solution on his own?
Working myself as a teacher, I hate to say this, but quite often you will just anoy people by asking "teacher-questions".
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