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Calculus made easy (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The most annoying thing about learning networking and security are all the acronyms! Sometimes it feels like certification tests are testing acronym memorization more than real concepts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Definitely are.

In a way it makes sense because the industry loves its acronyms and you'll be using them.

On the other hand, I have the ability to search. I'm an IT professional, I will have a computer. Let me let the computer do the lookup. Its the old "you won't have a calculator with you all the time" argument that was dated when my teachers told it to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Absolutely! One of the difficulties that I have with my intro courses is working out when to introduce the vocabulary correctly, because it is important to be able to engage with the industry and the literature, but it adds a lot of noise to learning the underlying concepts and some assessments end up losing sight of the concept and go straight to recalling the vocab.

Knowing the terms can help you self-learn, but a textbook glossary could do the same thing.