It's definitely a skill that doesn't translate to actual development. Before I was a programmer I was a Navy nuclear power plant operator and they did boards li

It's definitely a skill that doesn't translate to actual development. Before I was a programmer I was a Navy nuclear power plant operator and they did boards like that. In that situation, it made sense because you needed to be able to remember causality procedures during an emergency. Coding, on the other hand, doesn't have that requirement often if at all.