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

submitted 10 months ago by stirner@lemmy.ml to c/programming@programming.dev

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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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[–] Nommer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I'm starting to believe I am. Been at this for a year and I still don't understand how to use methods like .filter() or .map() despite reading and practicing, it's all just smashing the keyboard until it works. I know some other devs will come in and joke they do the same thing but no, I feel truly lost when trying to figure this out.

[–] halloween_spookster@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I have over a dozen years of experience as a software engineer and I started learning Scala and monads recently for a new job. I've come to the conclusion that monads are terrible and make things more difficult despite the on-paper description. Don't worry about it, you're much more competent than you think.

[–] Nommer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 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()

[–] Xuntari@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

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

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