<![CDATA[Why Dyslexics Are Good Computer Programmers - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Why Dyslexics Are Good Computer Programmers - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Why Dyslexics Are Good Computer Programmers]]> If so, does it bring up the possibility that some cultural tendencies may, perhaps, be based on different parts of people's brains being used more or less regularly due to the written language they use?

beercheck

]]> <![CDATA[Why Dyslexics Are Good Computer Programmers]]> @BlindKarma: Me too. It has always been a pain in the ass to have this condition. It only happens with my own writing, though. I can almost always spot mistakes in something that I'm reading, which has been written by someone else. And coding was never any easier for me.

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[Why Dyslexics Are Good Computer Programmers]]> I'm pretty sure you're jumping to conclusions here. We don't know if the differences between Chinese-reading and English-reading dyslexics is in which variant of dyslexia they have or how dyslexia affects brains under various language conditions.

johnsonmx

]]> <![CDATA[Why Dyslexics Are Good Computer Programmers]]> No wonder I sucked at programming!

rainmkr

]]> <![CDATA[Why Dyslexics Are Good Computer Programmers]]> @BlindKarma: Well you won't know until you try, so TRY IT!!!

Bob_of_Mars

]]> <![CDATA[Why Dyslexics Are Good Computer Programmers]]> I tend to transpose letters, numbers and words a lot... I doubt another language could help that.

BlindKarma

]]> <![CDATA[Why Dyslexics Are Good Computer Programmers]]> Can I sound like more of a pretentious cockhead than I usually do for a second here? If everyone would actually read Marshall McLuhan instead of just name-checking him, there's all sorts of stuff (like this!) that we could have put to rest a long time ago. Forty-five years ago, he was suggesting exactly this kind of thing about dyslexia.

moff

]]> <![CDATA[Why Dyslexics Are Good Computer Programmers]]> Maybe dyslexia is latent until the language learning process, and when a language is learned later in life it is not affected.

RAHfanboy

]]> <![CDATA[Why Dyslexics Are Good Computer Programmers]]> A great deal of my friends, who are dyslexic, excel particularly at computer languages. It's quite remarkable.

Wynt3r

]]> <![CDATA[Why Dyslexics Are Good Computer Programmers]]> Having a teenage son with severe dyslexia ( he is an A grade student in all his subjects - he's a persistent , hard worker ( certaily didn't get that from me ) ) - I can confirm the article's premise, as he does not have any problems in his Japanese classes whereas even with spell checker on the word processor he struggles with English.

gintmfgb

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