A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
One man's constant is another man's variable.
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.