If you like virtual pov stuff getshypnotizedbyyou <| sep |> It ' s a net contributor to the US economy . As were the states that left last time . In that era the U . S . economy was primarily agricultural . Care to take a guess on where a majority of the cash crops were produced ? They also tried to leave without military action , but were not allowed to do so . What makes you think it would be any different this time ? <| sep |> For me , math and coding is a lot less practicehardcore memorization and a lot more understanding . The thing about math and coding is that they ' re both extremely logical . For math , I like to derive or create a simple proof for the formulatheorem . Know why something exists or is the way it is ! If you can do this , you will truly understand math and it ' s going to make life so much easier . For actual practice doing problems , I usually do the hw which is weekly and takes about 12 hours and I practicestudy about 12 hours for exams . For programming , it ' s a bit different . I used to think it was just learning syntax , placing lines of code , and you ' re done . Now that I ' ve taken a programming class which talks about how code and computers interact , I realized it ' s a lot more difficult than that . You need to think like the computer to be good at coding . Yes , you should definitely practice A LOT and you should write small programs like other replies have suggested , but you also have to understand the logical sequence the computer takes . For example , if I had a loop code in c which is not printing what I want , I would make a chart thinking like the computer , such as this one programmingimagesasteric . png . If I wasn ' t taught how to think like the computer when coding , I would be failing my programming classes .