I'm older now so it's over anyway, but I seemed to get on OK with physics and maths (up to 3rd year undergrad course at a good uni), but I'm very bad at programming. I used sql server at my old job but I guess I wasn't required to do any further. Just basically queries and minor input sprocs. And looking at JavaScript stuff.

In my degree (again this is a while ago), up to say 1st year graduate math seemed intuitive to me whereas coding never did. Now I've never used math or physics to actually solve real world problems so there is that. But programming is hard for me and when I search on plebbit it's often the other way around (good at code, bad at math). I've seen comments like an aptitude for programming coincides more with an aptitude for learning natural languages. Do you think that could be part of the problem?