I often wonder what would happen if we learned high school concepts like geometry by recreating concepts like this - maybe alongside learning the proofs, or even before.<p>Being able to derive proofs on tests is important, but I think equally important is to have created knowledge you can reference in the future.
This is neat. I’m actually in a Computational Geometry course this semester. Computational Geometry is pretty neat stuff and has some cool applications. Like for example mixing 3 paints to get certain ratios can be reduced to a convex hull problem where all the possible paint color ratios are contained in the triangle with the 3 points (representing the ratio of the colors of the paints) as vertices. My course doesn’t involve any coding and is more about algorithm design through pseudo code and proofs.
i _remember_ submitting this earlier, and sure enough : <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13800862" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13800862</a><p>but this was a while back :), so not marking it dupe.