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What do you visualize while programming?
Thinking about thinking when coding, and the differences in what we see in our minds eye
And so it struck me therefore if that’s already true at the most elementary level, that when we learn the mathematics and the Bessel functions and the exponentials and the electric fields and all these things, that the imageries and method by which we’re storing it all and the way we think about it could be really, if we could get into each other’s heads, entirely different. It’s definitely connected to the brain’s visual system, but seemingly something along the lines of an induced noisy signal, versus a clear image perceived by the eyes with the direct optic nerve path. When reading and writing recursive algorithms it’s especially important to start by thinking through the easiest (base) cases first to understand the call flow before increasing the complexity of the example.
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