- How to think. If you can't hold abstract thoughts in your head you should find something other than programming to do. I agree that proper methods of thinkin

- How to think. If you can't hold abstract thoughts in your head you should find something other than programming to do. I agree that proper methods of thinking and holding abstract thoughts is necessary to program well, in fact it is probably the most necessary criteria. But if you cannot do that the answer is not to give up on programming (if you want to program), but to learn to think and reason abstractly.