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  1. one of the (many) things that makes programming hard to learn is that some things don't matter, some things matter a lot, and which is which is not intuitive.
    1. …in reply to @ra
      ive had students tripped up by syntax highlighting differences or variable names, which generally dont matter. but ive also had students confused that capitalization and commas/semicolons are crucially important.