I would predict the ones with high interest.
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Desire/curiosity & competence form an incredible feedback loop, but I don't think it's fair to ascertain from that that anyone can learn to code. For one thing, it makes it very easy to say to yourself that anyone you failed to teach effectively simply didn't care enough.
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Maybe you’ve never held someone through their tears who’d sunk everything into a coding program, had been through several months of full-time instruction, had stayed late with the instructors at every opportunity, and just *couldn’t get it* like everyone else. I have. They exist.
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Replying to @webdevMason @Elixir_Beats and
I got a D in high school AP C++. I was a landscaper with illegals shortly after that. My daughter was in poverty and the dot com bubble popped. I still learned to code. Self-appointed "journalists" are not the hill to die on.
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Replying to @emblem21CEO @Elixir_Beats and
Nothing about getting a poor grade in a high school class would imply to me that someone couldn't learn any particular thing or excel in some field. That's perhaps the worst proxy ever, akin to using your performance on a game show occurring in your own dreams to gauge aptitude
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Replying to @webdevMason @Elixir_Beats and
Just so we are clear... Your friend spent months in a class as was psychologically tortured because he didn't get it... And I got a D in the only AP class I've ever taken and I was... stoic and unmoved by this personal failure?
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Replying to @emblem21CEO @Elixir_Beats and
Yep. This wasn't a high school class. I'm talking about a full-time project-based bootcamp, taught by people who actually knew how to code, with lots of one-on-one coaching. Students weren't literally required by the state to be in the building, to start.
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Replying to @webdevMason @Elixir_Beats and
JUST SO WE ARE CLEAR... Getting selected to partake in an AP C++ class taught by a former IBM veteran programmer and practically failing it carries no emotional burden. While joining a grindhouse exploiting a fat tail and "not getting" it is PTSD inducing. Is that your stance?
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Uh, no? I don't know the first thing about why you got a D in your high school class; I just don't presume anything about anyone based on their grades in compulsory schooling. But please, tell me more about my experience, and that of this third party you have never met.
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Replying to @webdevMason @Elixir_Beats and
AP isn't compulsory. Only a few get selected and I was lucky to make the cut. Are you saying the panics, and the confusion, and the fear of letting classmates down on shared projects are... made up? I was faking the whole thing? I still learned to code.
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Replying to @emblem21CEO @Elixir_Beats and
I think we're just talking past each other. I'm sorry this was such a difficult experience for you, and a terrible early introduction to something you'd later come to love. I'm glad you found your way back to it.
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