86: Maggie Appleton on the Power of Mental Models
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What's the Hardest Metaphor for Programming?
As you've been designing, what's the hardest one that you've ever had to do? Like, what was the hardest metaphor that you ever had to map? Oh, Monads. And I totally didn't nail it. But like, one day I hope to properly come up with a good metaphor for Monads. Well, I'm really excited for the next Monad course because I have confidence.Oh, I don't know. I'm waiting for you to do it so I can have a proper mental model. Sure. What is the philosophy or the science behind these like cognitive metaphors for programming and how they help us like remember stuff or have these better mental models? Yeah,
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