Can Programming Raise Your IQ?

Efforts that don't raise IQ

First, Recent research suggests that taking IQ training does raise your IQ test score, but not your IQ!

What a wicked finding?

Some Indian educators also admit that entrance exams to IIT are more practice-based than true tests of student potential.

Translation: The more you practice, the higher your score, but your true skills in general may not rise that much.

Second, Feynman also made a similar remark about learning physics and making yourself smarter.

Efforts that do raise IQ

First, Drucker's remark about Jesuit learning (in "Innovation and Entrepreneurship," I think.)

Second, What Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan talk about executive self-development in "Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done."

They say in effect: Once an executive can resolve/dissolve "blocks" to his/her own development, there is no limit to their potential.

Very awe-inspiring passages. I do recommend you find read them.

Third, Self-reflection, awareness, and mindfulness in general. Because such practices make you aware of your own mistakes, what others have done better than you, and so on. It is a lot like model Deep Learning neural networks. You measure your own results, adjust/update your own "weights" till you reduce your error to zero.

Candopi Programming 101 makes you alert, aware and mindful.

If math, the so-called mother of science, is about patterns, we are about seeing, surfacing, uncovering such patterns.