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That professors were thinking real hard about which problem sets to give us in hopes that we would actually learn something.

I don't think I really understood that completely until I started TA-ing.

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Tangentially related but that's something I've come to realize too as of recent. Asynchronous programming in JavaScript is new to me so as an exercise, I'm writing a document where I explain the concepts to myself and once I shifted from "how I understand" to "how I would this to someone else", figuring out a good enough scenario/problem harder.

Good problem sets that aid studets' intuition aren't easy to come by, oftentimes they're either too easy or too hard.

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