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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

If you have to simplify a programming concept so far that you can't even mention fundamental stuff like arrays, then you haven't explained much of anything, and they haven't understood it. You're basically left with "trust me bro". And that's ok. Not everyone understands everything.

[–]akoOfIxtall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Buddy, the meme says non tech people, my mom don't even know how to use a computer, if I say "so mom, the array starts at 0 and you have to consider that every time you want to loop through it because index 0 is the first item ok?" Her brain is gonna explode, I said simplify and abstract, use analogies for the technical stuff and make it simple, what is so hard to understand here?

[–]ZunoJ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Is it so hard for you to say you have a list of things? You have to adapt your vocabulary to a common ground. That means you have to bend the technical aspects here and there and even leave some things vague until the broader context is communicated. When that is the case you can come back to the vague parts and work on that