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Ok - maybe 'learning to write a few lines of code' - i.e. basic algorithms, should be 'no harder than reading or writing' ... or using Excel ...
But writing software, on the whole is a fairly intellectual exercise. It requires legit curiosity, intelligence, conscientiousness, etc..
"Code is a way to express solution to the problem which a computer can execute."
No, only in it's rudimentary form.
If every program was only 20 lines of code, I would agree fully, but since that's not the case, I don't agree at all.
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Ok - maybe 'learning to write a few lines of code' - i.e. basic algorithms, should be 'no harder than reading or writing' ... or using Excel ...
But writing software, on the whole is a fairly intellectual exercise. It requires legit curiosity, intelligence, conscientiousness, etc..
"Code is a way to express solution to the problem which a computer can execute."
No, only in it's rudimentary form.
If every program was only 20 lines of code, I would agree fully, but since that's not the case, I don't agree at all.