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Rework generic fn examples to show monomorphized versions (#2671)
Something I always do when covering generic fns is I like to show the
monomorphized versions of `pick` to make it clear to students what
generics are doing behind the scenes. In my most recent class I tried
going the other way around, showing the monomorphized versions first to
more clearly motivate what generics are used for, and I liked the way it
went. I think motivating generics by first showing code duplication and
then showing how generics allow us to de-duplicate makes for a good
teaching flow, and I think it also helps make things clearer to students
coming from more dynamic languages that don't have an equivalent to
generics.
I also changed the `pick` fns to take a `bool` as the first argument
because I think that makes things slightly clearer/cleaner, but I'm not
married to that change either.
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