Not until I went to university, to study computer science, of all things. I was good at language, so I treated programming as a language problem. Just today I

Not until I went to university, to study computer science, of all things. I was good at language, so I treated programming as a language problem. Just today I was reading this blog post from someone who loved math, went into programming, and claims that programming isn't math, it's language, and that the image comes from early programmers being mathematicians and the industry hasn't moved on from that image yet: http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2014/07/15/programming-is-not-math/ http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2014/07/15/programming-is-not-m... People with a math background did fine, of course, but people with a heavy language background often did better. I saw this curious effect again when I started working with high schoolers, with a similar curriculum. Bilingual kids often took to programming more easily than monolingual kids. (Has that been discussed or investigated?)