# Mental Warmup

... or mental pain generator, I don't know who are you, dear reader.

You've come here to learn programming, and programming is all about doing mental processes. Thinking, in common tongue. Are you comfortable with thinking? I don't want to sound rude, it's just another checkbox in a "wannabe developer" checklist:
- [X] have a desire to learn something new
- [X] can dedicate some hours a week to learning, without distractions
- [X] find a free teaching/learning resource
- [X] find a friendly community, where you can ask questions and get feedback
- [ ] like thinking on tough problems
- [ ] ...

So should I mark that checkbox?

## If checkbox marked...

I'll talk about motivation, but a bit later. It will be culmination, a plot of what I'm going to ask you next. Okay, so let's start with a simple equation:

<mark>Doing programming `==` solving puzzles.</mark>

This is a basic equation of programming. Learning programming is essentially learning to solve puzzles. How do you feel, do you like to solve puzzles? In any case, I don't want to hear your answer, I want you to answer yourself that honestly.

I'll help you a bit. I'll present a little example, you **should** try to solve it though.

### A little puzzle

This puzzle is about squares.

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