What I want is to be able understand, attain a more intuitive comprehension, of concepts associated with other fields that I'm interested in, which I assume are important. As a simple example, take this comment by RobinZ. Not that I don't understand that simple statement. As I said, I already know the 'basics' of programming. I thoroughly understand it. Just so you get an idea.

In addition to reading up on all lesswrong.com sequences, I'm mainly into mathematics and physics right now. That's where I have the biggest deficits. I see my planned 'study' of programming to be more as practise of logical thinking and as a underlying matrix to grasp fields liked computer science and concepts as that of a 'Turing machine'.

And I do not agree that the effect is nil. I believe that programming is one of the foundations necessary to understand. I believe that there are 4 cornerstones underlying human comprehension. From there you can go everywhere: Mathematics, Physics, Linguistics and Programming (formal languages, calculation/data processing/computation, symbolic manipulation). The art of computer programming is closely related to the basics of all that is important, information.