I did say you need to do some exercises, just not an extreme amount or at the expense of theory. And these math exercises are different from programming - they

I did say you need to do some exercises, just not an extreme amount or at the expense of theory. And these math exercises are different from programming - they amount to applying some process to different numbers over and over again while at least there would be some degree of problem solving if you wrote a bunch of genuinely different programs.