Surly the fundamentals of programming are converting between binary, octal hex by hand basic set theory, the standard control structures etc. Bad analogy with

Surly the fundamentals of programming are converting between binary, octal hex by hand basic set theory, the standard control structures etc. Bad analogy with music theory though at the super high end it gets more about the theory than the actual music. Most musicians are not going to be using exotica like Xenharmony