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I think it's interesting to consider how this may be applied to the teaching of computer programming. There's very little that needs to be memorized, and most of the learning process revolves around applying techniques to a problem the student has never seen before.

As such, the usual approaches of visual and auditory presentation, while briefly important in presenting the basic techniques, aren't really central to the learning process. It only takes five minutes to give a learner the basic syntax of a loop. But it will take hours of practice for most learners to figure out how to use them.

This raises several questions in my mind:
1) Are presentation techniques still relevant in the teaching of computer programming?
2) Could there be some applicability specifically to the types of exercises presented and how they are assigned and approached by the students?
3) Could there be other factors involved besides audible, visual, or written word that apply specifically to the teaching of computer programming?

Any thoughts are appreciated!

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