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Re:Why did we ever think a student's first programming langu... by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA on Saturday June 26, 2021 @11:36PM (#27648352)
“… sufficiently skilled […] given enough time …”

Well, sure. For some values of sufficiently and enough.

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Re:Why did we ever think a student's first programming langu... by okwubodu on Sunday June 27, 2021 @01:00AM (#27648741)
Sufficiently skilled: understands the topic in their chosen language.

Enough time: however long it takes them to learn the syntax of the second language + the time it took to complete the project in the first language.

Unfortunately I can't give decimal precision hour estimates.

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Re:Why did we ever think a student's first programming langu... by d18g on Sunday June 27, 2021 @06:16AM (#27650238)
Learning the syntax of a language is far from understanding the sementics.
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