...generations of programmers learned to program without understanding the basics of MVC. When I was a kid, I read Anne McCaffery's book Dragonsong, and though

...generations of programmers learned to program without understanding the basics of MVC. When I was a kid, I read Anne McCaffery's book Dragonsong, and thought that I should make up a tune for the lyrics of one of the songs that the protagonist writes. We had a piano available, so I came up with said tune. I couldn't have (and still couldn't) told you which key it's in, and, you know, I'm certainly not going to claim that it was a brilliant composition that will endure for the ages, but it wasn't dissonant and was, through trial and error, in some minor key or other. Obviously, having a keyboard helps, since you are forced to only play notes on the chromatic scale somewhere.