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Also, who knows how the lecturer presented the information. Perhaps it was well composed, and in fact could be understood by anybody.
When fields highly specialize they seem to attract a certain personality of people who revel in their 'insider knowledge' and make the learning of it for others more difficult in order to inflate their standing in the eyes of their students, "How did you learn this stuff!?"
The reality of these fields, like mathematics, music theory, computer science, and the like is that the ideas themselves are so ridiculously simple that they could be understood by most anyone with a rudimentary understanding of the 5 basic arithmetic operators if presented coherently.
After all, “Coding is basically just ifs and for loops.”