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The Programmer's Brain
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The Programmer's Brain

by Felienne Hermans
September 2021
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
8h 1m
English
Manning Publications
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1 Decoding your confusion while coding

This chapter covers

  • Discriminating the different ways you may be confused while coding
  • Comparing three different cognitive processes that play a role when coding
  • Understanding how different cognitive processes complement each other

Confusion is part of programming. When you learn a new programming language, concept, or framework, the new ideas might scare you. When reading unfamiliar code or code that you wrote a long time ago, you might not understand what the code does or why it was written the way it was. Whenever you start to work in a new business domain, new terms and jargon can all bump into each other in your brain.

It’s not a problem to be confused for a while, of course, but you don’t want to ...

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