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by HellDunkel 999 days ago
So you can make really good drawings of the things? Like imagine a castle and draw it on a sheet of paper without any other references? I am very skeptical.
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You’re practically describing Kim Jung Gi: https://youtu.be/MGbvhyTZXfs
Yes, its called a photographic memory and only very few people have it. It cannot be trained.
No because I don't know how to draw. But I can program in my head and reproduce on a page.
Do you visually see the code in your mind? Do you remember it visually? Hoe does that even make sense?
I program in my head, and yes, I often do see the code in my head. In some sense, it's like a spatial experience, where each file is a different "room", and those rooms have contents of the code.

When I imagine programming something, I make mental plans of what code goes in specific rooms (Files, or directories), and what that code will roughly look like - At first a rough shape, of a class with particular methods, and over time that resolves into more and more detail such as what the methods will do and how they will interact with other parts.

My memory is really bad though, so if I try to come back to this a week later I will have forgotten the whole thing unless I make very detailed notes.