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Six years. Situational requirement. But continuing to study, and to build mental models of code, and language structures, and algorithms was a constant. Filling journals and notebooks with tens of thousands of lines of code, that I would never type but that would only ever be run between my ears.

After that, sitting down to program again? I found that the mental models I'd been building were robust and reliable, and remarkably accurate. Honestly, while it sucked, that time was the best thing that happened to my development skills.