http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2007-March/000849.html
I still meet a lot of people who think that knowing how to program is
about knowing programming languages or the APIs of libraries or
"frameworks", and who are much more impressed with the quality of the
gradients an a program's UI than with its underlying functionality.
... Once, I thought that I had believed these things myself
because I was 6-12 years old, but apparently many adults have these
cognitive limitations too.
Scott McCloud mentioned the same thing in a different domain in
"Understanding Comics":
http://gangles.ca/images/SixLayers2.jpg
and I've also seen it in sport, so it's likely to be common to any
discipline: it's much easier for neophytes to see surface qualities,
while appreciation of underlying qualities comes slowly with experience.
-Dave
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