I think when I was very young and new to programming I sometimes did coding via superstition. But it was a long time ago, in say my first year or two, when I di

I think when I was very young and new to programming I sometimes did coding via superstition. But it was a long time ago, in say my first year or two, when I didn't yet have a good mental model of how the computer worked and how the language compiler or interpreters worked. Once you become solid at that I've found that 99.9999% of the time that computing is refeshingly rational and deterministic and amenable to logic.