> there is a way, in which I understand math better than in university lectures. That way is through computer programming.
Do you have examples of mathematical concepts that you developed an understanding of this way?
It is not exactly the same thing but it reminds me of a 1986 interview with David Blackwell[1] in which he went into great detail about how computers helped his own mathematical learning:
I have a little computer at home, and it's a lot of fun just to play with it. [...] Jim MacQueen was telling me about something that he had discovered. [...] He has an interesting algebraic identity. [...] Also, I had a conjecture that some stronger result was true. I checked it for some numbers selected at random and it turned out to be true for him and *not* true for what I had said. Well, that just settles it.