To add on to this, in college I knew a woman who could read code just fine but could not write it. It was really odd, but I paired with her (she was 2 years ah

To add on to this, in college I knew a woman who could read code just fine but could not write it. It was really odd, but I paired with her (she was 2 years ahead of me) and basically had to write the entire thing myself. But once I was done she understood it perfectly, to your point about abstract mental processing, she just couldn't come up with the algorithms on her own.