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[–] heimchen@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You are right the symbols weren't created so students can learn them, but students have to learn them at one point and for me personally, a student that knows how to program, figuring out that these symbols kind of represent for loops made them easier to understand.