Re:The language brain matters more for learning programming ...
by HideousKojima on Friday May 02, 2025 @02:18PM
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>"absolutely everyone can learn to program"
Personally I've always considered a solid grasp of algebra to be the minimum bar for being able to program, at least for anything that isn't utterly trivial. Being able to take a word problem and turn it into a system of equations and solve it is a pretty close analog to being able to take some sort of problem or business requirement and turn it into code.
And the sad truth is that a huge percentage of the population struggle with just arithmetic, let alone algebra.
Personally I've always considered a solid grasp of algebra to be the minimum bar for being able to program, at least for anything that isn't utterly trivial. Being able to take a word problem and turn it into a system of equations and solve it is a pretty close analog to being able to take some sort of problem or business requirement and turn it into code.
And the sad truth is that a huge percentage of the population struggle with just arithmetic, let alone algebra.