https://blog.romero.id.au/tags/algorithm/ Recent content in Algorithm on Ralph Romero Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 14 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.romero.id.au/posts/rethinkingthealphabetorder/ Fri, 14 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.romero.id.au/posts/rethinkingthealphabetorder/ The first three letters of the alphabet are ABC. You can make the word CAB from it but it’s not a commonly used word. You may intuit that SAT might be better than ABC because you can make the words SAT and AT which are words that a two year old may know. Therein in my opinion is the inefficiency of the English alphabet order. Being able to combine letters into words as early as possible when learning the alphabet allows those letters to be put in context and reinforce the learning.