Comment by skydhash

I don’t think so. I strongly believe that writing and reading is pretty much the same, because they are strongly related to thinking. They are even secondary to the latter. I often interacted with juniors and other colleagues and those that do have issue with writing and reading often struggle with formalized thinking.

Taking a problem or a wanted behavior and dissecting it down to logical manipulation is hard for those people. They can go down one or two layers but then they got lost while building the necessary abstraction. You can observe it pretty much in real time as they’re losing track of assumptions for the current context. Thinking that way is a skill and once you can do it, reading and writing code is pretty much effortless.

Both learning to write and learning to read is merely a proxy of learning to think. Doing one while not doing the other is handicapping yourself for no reason.