My little cousin asked me why the computer doesn't just know what I want it to do

I was trying to explain a simple 'if' statement to him yesterday, and he just looked at me and said, 'But if you want the character to jump, why don't you just tell it to jump?' I had to stop and think... he's right, in a way. We spend all this time telling the machine every single tiny step. It made me realize how much we have to break things down from our own thinking. Has anyone else had a moment like that, where a simple question from a non-coder made you see coding differently?

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wesley80114h ago

Haha yeah but that's the whole point, right? We have to be the ones who think it through first.

sam_rivera11h ago

Wait what? @wesley801 are you saying we have to figure this all out on our own? That's a huge thing to just drop in there. It sounds like nobody has a plan and we're just supposed to make one up from scratch. That's honestly kind of wild to think about, like where do you even start? I guess you're right but man that's a lot of pressure lol.