TRUE
TRUE, even more than years of practice
Not a weekend, but not very long either. If you know one modern language (like c++ or java) you can easily relate to that. After all it's the same concept for the most part. Objects and methods.
TOTALLY DISAGREE. It's like building with bocks. You need to know what you are building before you start. You can reuse some assemblies and alter few things, but if you start building an airplane you can't really turn the wings into the wheels of a bike. Also if you want to build a 6ft tower you can't really start with a single piece at the bottom...
There are people who catch it really fast because they understand the big picture and that they don't worry about details first. And there are people who will never do it properly because they aren't meant for it.
If you can express what you want to do in plain English (Chinese, French, Spanish...), to the last detail or you can draw the complete diagram on paper then you can also code it. It's just replacing the words with code.
Code:if webby has programming books then
if webby studies the book to the end then
webby writes the "Hello world" program
else
webby complains that programming is hard
end if
else
webby complains that he doesn't have programming books
end if
Sure this is a fake language, but it would be pretty damn close to a c++/java/c# implementation.Code:if(webby.library.books.count>0)
{
if(webby.study(programming).complete==true)
{
webby.write(helloworld)
}
else
{
webby.complaints.add("programming is hard")
}
}
else
{
webby.complaints.add("don't have books")
}