This is why folks who complain about rote learning are on the wrong track. You have to learn things by rote before you can internalise the abstractions. Yeah,

This is why folks who complain about rote learning are on the wrong track. You have to learn things by rote before you can internalise the abstractions. Yeah, that means lots of boring scales before you can play a solo; it means sitting in a classroom saying, 'amo, amas, amat' before you read Bellum Gallicum; it means … whatever one does to first learn to program (it's honestly so long ago now that I really can't remember what it was like).