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title: Some people will never program
date: "2006-07-20T12:00:00Z"
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wp_id: 265
description: "This post discusses the observed 'double hump' in programming education, where student results suggest two distinct populations: those who intuitively grasp programming logic and those who cannot, regardless of the teaching method used."
keywords: [double hump, programming education, pedagogy, mental models, computer science, aptitude]
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> All teachers of programming find that their results display a 'double hump'. It is as if there are two populations: those who can [program], and those who cannot [program], each with its own independent bell curve.