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A friend and I had a conversation about this phenomenon a while back that he called a 'matrix moment' - referencing Neo's "Whoah, I know Kung Fu!" line.

We both had similar experiences as we learned to program, the most vivid one being OOP - it went from practically no understanding to all of a sudden being completely able to understand what and why.

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As a college student, I unfortunately see too many other students who don't "see it". There's something about visualizing code and algorithms that is very powerful but some people just don't see. I don't like math, but I can see counters, for loops and data structures working together to create simple yet powerful stuff. I think ny matrix moment was somewhere when I figured out PHP's include function and how to use OO to put everything away nicely in a different file, abstracting it out.

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