Musical analogies to programming

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To help understand the relationship between computer science and coding, a musical analogy may be useful to help put the puzzle pieces together.

In graduate school in computer science, I sat in on more than 30 credit hours of music courses, including taking a few as allowed by my graduate assistantship (e.g., jazz improvisation, guitar and voice classes, private classical guitar lessons from Bill Carter, a world expert in the bass lute, etc.).
I wrote and used ear training software (Prolog logic programming language) using a PS/2 Model 30 and IBM MIDI sound board that kept learning statistics. The minor third was the hardest interval for me to distinguish.

In graduate school in computer science, I took guitar classes and private classical guitar lessons from Bill Carter - a world expert in the bass lute.

William Carter is a founding member of the acclaimed Palladians and a virtuoso player of the baroque guitar, lute and theorbo.

William Carter is also an enthusiastic teacher, and is Professor of Baroque Studies and Lute at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Carter-William.htm (as of 2022-12-10) (1st quote)
https://www.linnrecords.com/artist-william-carter (as of 2022-12-10) (2nd quote)

Can one create music without a musical instrument?
Can one do computer science without using a programming language?

(LilyPond used dynamically with text formatter to create the musical notation)

Music and computer science part 1
Music	Computer Science
musical problem	problem to solve
musical idea	solution idea
compose music in notation	specify solution in pseudo‑code
learn to read the musical notation	learn to read the pseudo‑code solution
learn to play an instrument	learn to code in a programming language

Music and computer science part 2
play the music	write the code
playing	coding
listen to music	run the program
audio output	program output

Does the music analogy help put the pieces together?

One should program designed solutions into a programming language. One should not think in a programming language.

Think like a trumpet. Think like Java.
Think like a saxophone. Think like Python.

If the code does not have to be correct, it can be made as fast as desired (paraphrased from the micro-computer days). Think correctness and not run-time speed.

Think of music, playing a musical instrument, and creating a score of music to play. In computer terms, the musical analogy is as follows.

Using a computer (program) is listening to music.
Writing a program from a design (including pseudo-code) is playing an instrument, such as the C programming instrument, the Java programming instrument, etc.
Designing and creating pseudo-code to solve a problem is creating a score of music to be played.

How does one learn music? (After listening to music for a while).

A computer (science) programming approach often used is the following to a beginning programmer.

Think of some music you to which you like to listen.
Now create a musical score for that music.
Now play that musical score on your musical instrument for which you are here to learn.

Will that work well? How about the following?

Think of some music you to which you like to listen.
Here is a musical score (design, pseudo-code, etc.) that represents that music.
You will now learn how to play your instrument (write a program in a language that implements) using that musical score (design and pseudo-code) for the music to which you like to listen.