[Its.an.education.project] Some thoughts on thinking about problems

[Antoine van Gelder]

For those who have difficulty thinking in anything more complex than a  
list of categories:

1. Problems that are easy to understand and very easy to solve and  
have minimal impact on the goal
2. Problems that are easy to understand and very difficult to solve  
and have minimal impact on the goal
3. Problems that are difficult to understand and are very easy to  
solve and have minimal impact on the goal
4. Problems that are difficult to understand and are very difficult to  
solve and have minimal impact on the goal
5. Problems that are easy to understand and are very easy to solve and  
have huge impact on the goal
6. Problems that are easy to understand and are very difficult to  
solve and have huge impact on the goal
7. Problems that are difficult to understand and are very easy to  
solve and have huge impact on the goal
8. Problems that are difficult to understand and are very difficult to  
solve and have huge impact on the goal

The problem of how to turn kids into sysadmins falls into category# 2  
imo.

Realistically, one probably doesn't want to expend much of one's  
(limited) resources on anything at a lower threshold than category 5  
problems and, ideally, one would put the bulk of one's (limited)  
resources into category 7&8 problems while relying as much as possible  
on commodity solutions for category 5&6 problems.

...and one question:

What is the goal of a project if it's an education project ?

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