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Programming and Bloom's Taxonomy

Michael Taggart on December 07, 2017

Originally appeared on my blog You can't get near education theory in the 21st century without Benjamin Bloom's categorization of cognitive activi...

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Bob van Hoove • Dec 8 '17

def isEven(n): return n % 2 == 0;

Michael Taggart • Dec 8 '17

Totally right! This is where writing teaching code rather than maximally elegant code sometimes produces different results.

Bob van Hoove • Dec 8 '17

Sorry I should have explained why I posted that.

If you have a piece of code of the form:

if (condition):
    return True
else:
    return False

Be aware that condition is a Boolean already, by virtue of fitting in the if statement. It's not elegance I wanted to demonstrate, I just wanted to raise type awareness.

I'll be keen to write a little explanation if I'm ever tempted to reply with a line of code like this :)

Bob van Hoove • Dec 8 '17

I saw you updated the article. You're swift with feedback, kudos :)