Re: [Mingw-msys] HAVE_SETMODE -- rethinking -> GnuWin32+MSYS

[Lennart B. <len...@st...>]

Greg Chicares wrote:

>On 2005-10-13 19:54 UTC, jw...@bi... wrote:
>  
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>>Before I Do anything at all I ask the basic questions:
>>Q. What Do I Want?
>>Q. What Do I Need?
>>
>>Then I ask another three famous hi-level questions.
>>Q. What  Can I Do?
>>Q. What  Ought I Do?
>>Q. What should I Do?
>>Then before I Do a line of code I ask another six low-level questions.
>>Do What: Where and When?
>>Do Who Wants/Needs it and Why?
>>Do Then How do I do it? [note this is the last question]
>>    
>>
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>Your questions remind me of Polya's "How to Solve It". His method,
>summarized here
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>  http://www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/math/polya.html
>
>was designed for math problems, but is helpful in many other contexts.
>
Thanks for those suggestions and links! I have never noticed the name 
Polya before therefore look him up on the net. I like his view that 
skill of problem solving is not inborn but something you learn. Is not 
that what math is about?

Interestingly enough he moved away from the nazis. On of my favorite 
questions is from a woman who was in the concentration camps, Hedi Friedh:

   "Whenever you think that this is not right, then ask Why?"

This is also a question that can help people to think. It is of course 
designed for those that are in some way or other oppressed (she became a 
psyhotherapist). However I have often found that many persons have 
difficulties understanding a problem due to "social fear", they do not 
dare to ask. A very common fear is beeing seen as silly.

Actually this is one of my favorite subjects and I was first surprised 
to found that this applies very much to mathematics as well.