[adeeshaek]

I think you're right. Knitting patterns are inherently algorithmic, and the notation of knitting patterns contains abstractions very similar to control flow abstractions we use in computing, such as for loops and conditional logic. In addition, knitters tend to reduce each section of a complex pattern into reusable modular sets of instructions, and they also reduce individual instructions into a short set of glyphs.

An example of a particularly complex pattern can be found here, if you are interested: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-queen-susan-sha...

I am a software engineer, and my wife is a champion knitter - she knits sweaters with cabling or colorwork. She is not a software engineer by trade, but she does construct complex software for modeling primate behavior in the wild (she's a PhD candidate), so I definitely see her applying the same skillset in both contexts.