rudiments

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If you can't speak at least the rudiments of the language yourself, you have no way of knowing.

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a statement of fundamental facts or principles

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noun

a statement of fundamental facts or principles

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noun

a statement of fundamental facts or principles

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If you can't speak at least the rudiments of the language yourself, you have no way of knowing.

How (if at all) can a Matlab-Fortran-SAS grunt start-from-the-beginning to at least understand the rudiments of how these work?

Having the rudiments around as a starting point to fix and improve is almost always better than having nothing.

A good teacher might make it easier to learn the rudiments of compiler design or marketing principles, but is hardly essential.

Which leads to the idea there's value in learning even the rudiments of programming.

What residual value would stick from such fleeing interactions with the rudiments of coding?

It has been successful for teaching the very rudiments of diverse subjects.

Particularly bizarre is this confused notion that F# is being ripped off, as if there aren't many languages with most of the same rudiments.

I had to go through hours of practicing rudiments - basic patterns to develop coordination - before applying them to anything.

But, eventually you develop a vocabulary, and learn the rudiments of the tools - even if they are completely peripheral to your actual domain of research.

Clearly we're capable of rebuilding our own ecosystem, at least the rudiments of one.

Or at least know the rudiments of repairing them.

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Someone "married" and especially if children are involved, would do well to learn basics and do food prep and rudiments of cooking.

However, if he truly feels that "It would be so nice if those who oppose evolution would take a tiny bit of trouble to learn the merest rudiments of what it is that they are opposing." he might do well to take a different tone in his writings.

I have a knee-jerk reaction to initiatives with names like "Everyone can <fill in the blank>." Everyone may benefit from being exposed to the rudiments of whatever activity you're promoting, but it is clearly, objectively, undeniably the case that no, not everyone can program, or dance, or sing, or build a curio cabinet for any personally or professionally meaningful definition of the term.