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Originally Posted by JamesT
Talking to a programmer about how difficult I found getting to grips with programming he said he had heard programming was more to do with how your brain is wired than how intelligent you are...you either 'get it' or you find it hard!
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There's probably a lot of truth to that. I think in one of my very early programming classes they illustrated this point by asking us to write down how you would make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Some students wrote a descriptive paragraph of three or four sentences. Other students wrote about two pages of step by step instructions. A lot of it has to do with the way you look at problems and think through solving them.
The other thing that I personally feel comes into play is the difference between science and art. Usually someone who is very scientific minded does not think very artistically, and vice versa. The best programmers are the ones that can do both. There's a lot of science/math in programming, but there's also a lot of artistic/creative thinking as well.