I asked a well-known coder if anyone can learn to code. He said that it's just like writing instructions for an extremely literal minded person.
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115? Just a guess. Maybe 120/125 to make a good living at it.
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IQ, or underlying g, is not a barrier directly when we talk not just about coding, but about programming/sw engineering. Those require very specific abilities to infer heuristics for exploring extremely large solution spaces in an efficient manner. There are also a number
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of other requirements, like n-order abstract reasoning, tremendous discipline to make locally optimal choices in the face of tremendous biases and lots of other things that don't fit in a tweet. g has a threshold effect, but it is woefully insufficient. I would estimate that the
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