Does Programming Depend More on Math or Language Skills? | Programming - Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence

Neither, actually, say researchers. It’s a more global network by Mind Matters.

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Researchers have discovered that learning to code software uses not just math or language skills but rather a broader region of the brain called the “multiple demand network,” which is active when we are solving complex problems:

“Understanding computer code seems to be its own thing. It’s not the same as language, and it’s not the same as math and logic,” says Anna Ivanova, an MIT graduate student and the lead author of the study.

Anne Trafton, “To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language” at MIT News Paper. (open access) (December 15, 2020)...

So, if you want to learn to code, should you study math? Yes. Should you study language: Yes. Should you study any subject that causes you to use a wide variety of mental skills? Yes!...

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