If you've not done something similar to fizzbuzz, then you're not a programmer. Programming is all about abstraction. And fizzbuzz is an abstraction of a huge

If you've not done something similar to fizzbuzz, then you're not a programmer. Programming is all about abstraction. And fizzbuzz is an abstraction of a huge range of programming work. Namely: go through this data pull out bits, based on these conditions then do something with it Some version of that underlies the vast majority of programming work.