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I would agree with the general statement just from the "logic" side of things. Some people never really "get it".

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>In some ways, learning to program a computer is similar to learning a new language. It requires learning new symbols and terms, which must be organized correctly to instruct the computer what to do. The computer code must also be clear enough that other programmers can read and understand it.

I would agree with the general statement just from the "logic" side of things. Some people never really "get it". Archive: https://archive.today/VPm1b From the post: >>In some ways, learning to program a computer is similar to learning a new language. It requires learning new symbols and terms, which must be organized correctly to instruct the computer what to do. The computer code must also be clear enough that other programmers can read and understand it.

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A lot of writing computer code involves math and problem solving. Interesting discovery.

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I am not brilliant at math but my problem solving and logic skills are fairly good (in my opinion). I can read/write code without a huge amount of effort. Ill never be a proper "dev" since that is not really what I want to do anyway but I know a lot of people that even if they spent a year learning to program they could barely read code like its a children's book. There is nothing wrong with that. Not everyone can do everything and we should accept that.

On the other side. I do a fair amount of custom programming for things I want and things I need. I know some things are outside my skill level but I refuse to just accept "that is too hard" for most things. Programming is not that hard if you can wrap your head around it.

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Good for you. I also do things outside of my expertise like designing circuits. While I don't claim to be an electronics engineer, I can still do a bunch of really cool stuff.