Comment on Negative and Positive Selection

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:05:38 GMT

Your intuition relating to "innate talent" is wrong. There is nothing innate about any of the "talents" required for programming, other than what generally comes with the package of most human brains. This might be a simple question of wording though, as if you change the words to "inner" talent, I would be more inclined to agree.

Simply put, unless a person is simply incapable of mental change and learning, then they will be able to "learn" and self-adjust into "obtaining" the "talents" required. However, this usually requires much more effort than people (read: the small sample size of the people I know who are not programmers but have attempted to learn how to program, which amounts to eight individuals) are willing to put forth, hence the common misconception that there is this "innate talent" that you simply must have to become a programmer.

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