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@LukeAlmighty That is interesting indeed, especially since basic math is something 99% of kids can grasp so you don't see people fail with it, but with programming there are hurdles that some just can't overcome, and seeing them try is... intriguing.

First when they finally realize how loops work, and stop putting return statements in the loop body.

The second hurdle is recursion.
That hits people hard, and is the biggest test for devs in general.

I've never met a good dev who didn't understand recursion.
It's simple, but abstract and completely new.
A self referencing rule, that is the reason many quit software engineering.

CSS rules, REGEX, parsing tokens, and SQL statements, are last but not least.
Selecting items by describing the group, instead of describing the method, as well as mutual recursion, are entirely different approaches to get things done, and it's difficult for many to fit into their heads.

If you get past all that, you definitely think differently.
One line a time.
@LukeAlmighty I like to partly blame my earlier support of gay marriage with mainstream Christian doing an absolutely shit job of making sensible secular arguments against it.

I'm also kinda amazed by how impressed TradCaths are with their Natural Law talking points, which have like a 0% success rate when it comes to convincing people who weren't already fully on board with Catholic theology.

This is why I hate normies...

I can spend 9 years in a 95 percent christian collective, listening to every single one of them, and I get NOTHING!!! Not a single good argument. NOT ONE, WHEN I WAS LOOKING FOR THEM!!!

I can be listening to an intellectual like JODRAN MATHERFUCKING PETERSON for HOURS, and all I hear are the same BS APOLOGETICS I hear from every other sheep.

And a random rapper can sum up an amazing psychological benefit of christianity just like that... Like, he was describing a burger he just ate.

Do you believe that learning programming changes the way people think forever?

When I was thinking about this, I have realized, that whan I was learning programming I saw many people freeze up completely. To truly know they have no idea how to work with this kind of language and be terrified. And I realized that I saw this kind of freeze only once before. When a kid was learning math for a first time.

What a strange view...

The self appointed human right defenders have been arguing in my Twitter mentions that pedophiles don't have rights :lul:

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