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There's only a handful of key concepts people need to learn to understand the basics of 'coding'. If you understand what a variable is, how they're scoped, how step-wise transformations happen, and what loops are, you know 90% of "coding". I knew it at age 13 in 1981 doing "Basic" programming. Sure mastery of the art of coding does take decades, but that's just just adding polish, rather than capability.

Math is VASTLY different with VASTLY more concepts that are all much more abstract in nature and harder to understand the infinite numbers of different ways one mathematical construct can be applied to another. A person can "master" coding, but no one ever masters math.

So comparing math to language or to coding is silly. They're completely separate domains. Just because each of the three can encode and represent the other two doesn't make them similar in any way whatsoever.



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