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The Science of Learning to Code

CoRecursive: Coding Stories

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The Importance of Understanding Variable Assignment in a Programming Language

The test that can decide if you're a programmer or not. Richard Barnett came forward and he said the paper was a mistake. He wanted to retract it Though it's embarrassing. It also just doesn't match how we think about learning a skill. With effort and practice people get better at things including Programming. There's no like impossible bar that nobody can get beyond Especially as something as simple as variable assignment right That can't be what's happening here.

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