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The whole point of the exercise is for the teacher to do it in an unexpected manner. The exercise is about established structures and constraints, isn't it?

The point being "I can't even tell someone how to make a sandwich without establishing the platform we're building on". If you start a python app writing in assembly or Fortran then (in general, you pedants!) it's not going to work.

If you do the same exercise with cooperative people then you don't normally emphasise the point because they do a lot that's not clearly defined, and that hides the point about defining the parameters and metrics you're working with.



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