I haven't taken much CS, but I took a class on computationally intensive statistics. It changed my life, because every week I was assigned to do things that we

I haven't taken much CS, but I took a class on computationally intensive statistics. It changed my life, because every week I was assigned to do things that we hardly covered in class. I felt so lost for while, until I got the hang of the stuff described in this post. It's really empowering. The only constraint becomes time, not intelligence. I always find it sad when people are impressed that I "can program." Not only because people tend to think of it as binary when it's not, but because they think programming, like math, is the exclusive domain of people with certain inherent qualities.