Continuing on smartness
I didn’t mean that he’s gonna have to learn programming himself, guidance is awesome to have, but the really good programmers out there are mostly self taught, people who were able to absorb knowledge wherever it came from, be it a peer, a book or an actual teacher. The ones who were “taught” programming are code monkeys with a very limited ability of actual programming, sure they can code, but they can’t Code.
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