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I'm not even talking about big O or algorithms & data structures. I'm talking about the basic concepts of function, iteration, abstraction, indirection etc.

• vorpalhex 7y ago
  Yeah those are definitely things that new programmers need to learn, but they usually need to learn them by doing things the hard way a few times first. "yeah, that's a lot of copy and pasting isn't it? Want a neat trick to save yourself some effort?"
  • loxs 7y ago
    Have you tried that yourself on a variety of people? (I have)
    • vorpalhex 7y ago
      I have as well, I'm happy to report out of the last 5 non-programmers or very-new programmers I've trained, 3 are senior engineers and 2 are on-level engineers and I'd gladly work with any of them.