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Ep. 71: Harvard CS50's David Malan and Colton Ogden on Computer Science

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What's an Analogy?

Sally Kohn: How do you describe technical topics through analogy? She says in one of the early lectures, you demonstrate binary search by ripping a phone book into pieces. "I don't remember the very first time i saw that demonstration, but i'm pretty sure it was not i who thought of it," she says. 'It's a lot more interesting than just seeing chalk on or marker on a blackboard or a white board'

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