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Can one be too dumb for programming? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've always flunked at math; and knowing how intertwined programming is with math, I'm skeptical of my ability to learn how to code. Can someone be too dumb to learn programming? If it helps, I'm mostly interested in learning Common Lisp.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd like to believe that, I really would but I can't when it takes the better part of 2-3 hours of frustration just trying to figure out how to reverse a string before just doing a for loop and going over each individual character, only to find out all I had to do was something stupid simple like str.split().reverse().join()

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

But now you know for next time! Everything is a mystery, until you figure it out.