Re: Beginner to programming. References to understand terms.

[Jorge <xxopxe@...>]

On 26/04/17 18:08, Hisham wrote:
> I can attest that this
> citation has at least some grain of truth. To this day I think very
> concretely — but take into consideration that I learned that x=2 is a
> stateful variable assignment_years_  before I learned that x=2 is a
> mathematical equation (yes, I learned programming before elementary
> school algebra)

The way these things work are really strange. I had classmate in 
high-school who was absolutely unable to solve any equation whatsoever; 
he said they made no sense to him. After a rather awkward discussion we 
understood what was going on: for him "x + y = z" made sense because you 
operated on the left and put the result on the right. But "x = z - y" 
was just gibberish, because there was nothing to do! So he had a sort of 
imperative thinking (notated backwards), probably developed from 
laborious number crunching in school (no computers involved).