Some people believe that learning programming is so general, it helps you think about every kind of problem! Seems unlikely. Most truly, globally competitive fields where people take every edge they legally can, like baseball, do not send their contenders to coding bootcamp.
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Could still be true: being a natural programmer correlates with a widely applicable thinking power... that is key to relatively few competitive fields, and that nobody knows how to teach.
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Computer science and theoretical math do make you a better thinker. For example they taught me how to be exact. They also taught me that if you think for long and hard enough, you'll solve the problem. The improvement is general - can't use for loops and induction in real life.
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