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Pedagogy is related to teaching children, andragogy is the education of adults. Each has unique challenges in that the young lack a base of knowledge and adults may have their own conceptual frameworks that need to be addressed.


Semantics! (Though I'll be sure to remember that distinction for future conversations).


Fair enough. Teaching non-developers functional programming may prove an entirely different challenge than teaching procedural programmers functional programming.


This seems to disagree with standard usage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy




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