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51 Post author: Swimmer963 14 March 2011 08:03PM

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Comment author: moshez 15 March 2011 12:10:29AM 11 points [-]

Heh, I learned to program when I was six, I don't happen to remember it being hard -- and I think I therefore pretty much suck at teaching programming.

I rock at explaining specific concepts to programmers -- libraries, techniques, tools -- but I cannot teach a non-programmer to program. "What do you mean? You just write functions! They accept arguments, and do stuff...ummm...it's like subroutines?"

Comment author: ata 15 March 2011 01:38:09AM 1 point [-]

Upvoted for describing exactly my experience.