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I grew up playing games and I eventually got into programming and I was pretty good at it right off the bat. I found the intro to CS class extremely easy and I got an A+ without much effort. but I had some classmates that failed, some of whom got better overall grades than me in high school. I think it's correct to say programming is mostly to solve problems in a logical way.

So is it possible to be not-so logically minded and still succeed at school? further, succeed at programming? I detect a correlation between programmers and people who grew up gaming, could this be because games engage you in a logical problem solving sense? I know games are not often all that logical but they have their own in-world logic I suppose.

Like I grew up playing Pokemon, it doesn't make logical sense that fighting type is not good against bug type, but you can at least logically deduce that information from playing the game and then apply it to your strategy. I think often about what Pokemon is now, with the tutorials being outrageously long and upfront with the information. the excuse being it was made for kids or something. well, I don't feel like I was a "gifted" kid at like 5-6 years old but I managed to beat the first two gens of Pokemon easily enough. and obviously I wasn't the only one since those games were so popular with kids. I think it's reasonable to assume that helped develop my logical reasoning skills to a degree. Lots of questions here. I'm bored and wanted to ramble. What do you guys think?