For someone to become a effective creator of programs today, they need to learn - a style of analytical thinking and formal reasoning - syntax and semantics o

For someone to become a effective creator of programs today, they need to learn - a style of analytical thinking and formal reasoning - syntax and semantics of 1 or more programming languages - interpreting the debug and error reporting capabilities of their environment - version control - text editing - one or more build systems - a mental model of computing machines and networks Outside of academic environments you need to learn all of these thing simultaneously. If we can collapse away a few of these things with minimal loss of productivity we make programming much accessible.