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before teaching her programming find out if she is into logical thinking. it may sound horrible but I came to believe my math teacher that only 20% of mankind i
by singularity2001 9y ago
before teaching her programming find out if she is into logical thinking. it may sound horrible but I came to believe my math teacher that only 20% of mankind is capable of 'logical intuition', and only those can become true good programmers.
- nkrisc 9y agoI don't know about the claim of 20% but I fully understand where you're coming from. You can usually tell who lacks that intuition when they have a problem. They come to you with a problem: thing X isn't working. "Well, what have you tried so far?" you ask them. "Oh, nothing. It's just not working." They see the world as "thing works" and "thing doesn't work" and never stop to wonder, "why?" Someone with logical intuition might first think, "Well, it was working earlier, what's changed since then?" Even if they possess none of the knowledge to fix the problem themselves, they may be able to come up with some theories as to why it's not working.
- avenoir 9y agoI don't know why you're getting downvoted. You can teach anybody to program, but they're still going to struggle if they don't know how to logically approach issues and software design tasks. I've seen people struggle and move on to other things because of this.