This One's for my Mum
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Claim: programming is composing, not magic — treat code as musical score that a machine interprets like a musician reads notation. Schools expect universal virtuosity but reality is specialization and limited tutoring, so early expectations are unrealistic. Practical takeaway: the job is to break problems into small tasks and translate them into precise instructions for computers, acknowledging that those instructions often work imperfectly.
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