It is quite strange when you take the time to step back from being an experienced developer and have to look at things from the perspective of someone just starting to learn to code.
My partner has taken the decision to learn HTML and PHP and so far is doing very well at it. This has lead to a few questions which I am more than happy to answer, I just have to try and think about how to explain things.
You see after years of development things are just things. A variable is a variable, an array is an array and functions, methods, objects etc. well, they just are what they are. So stepping back and trying to explain that a variable is just a box you can put something in, an array is just a bigger box that you can put other boxes (variables) in and actually thinking about how to explain things can get quite esoteric.
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