While working with a student in a freshman computing course, this advice was given:
A first programming course can be quite a challenge, or it can be very easy. Much of your success in a first time course depends upon your previous coursework and preparation.
If you are not as successful as you would like in this course, do not quit. Keep trying and work on filling in "gaps in your learning and preparation".
You can do this. Anyone can.
This is true of any academic subject. Academic fields are based upon "rules", applying them, and deducing them.
If you can understand and follow the legal code in your city, province, or country, you have all of the reasoning power needed for understanding or studying any subject, Learn the rules well and how one applies them. Make flashcards, if you must. That is all that it takes.
Similar advice was shared with a classmate who was rather amazed at the author's work as a NIH scientific apprentice while in high school. She used this simple advice, including the flashcards, and earnt a doctorate in organic chemistry.
She now has a significant role in an international pharmaceutical company. She even proudly displayed her set of homemade flashcards with benzene, aromatic rings, and aliphatic chains, when she met with the author briefly one evening when he studied at Grinnell College. Great Job, KC!
Genuis is 95% practice, 4.9999999999% chance, and 0.0000000001% natural gifting.
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