Programming is anything but easy. Programming is hard work. Programming is one of the most difficult things I have ever done in life time. One the other side, Programming has a mystic quality that makes almost everyone wants to do it, or at least wants to be identified as a programmer.
From my experience, programming can not be learned in 24 hours, nor can you grasp it in 7 days. I think it takes a 10 year course! Even medical students spend 7 years learning the profession. And I am saying 10 years if started early, if you started late? Then be patient.
It is not acceptable to make mistakes here. Sometimes my code won’t compile, if they do compile, they won’t run, if they do run, they will have bugs. Oh tell me about debugging?
I sit at it far late into the night, only to find out that I have spent 6 to 7 hours looking for a misplaced comma, or semi colon.
Code monkeys come to my code while I am a sleep, things that have been working before after I wake up from sleep will suddenly stop working. At times my codes have ideas of their own, different from what I intended. I just hope that I can spent part of my life developing applications like Monster Truck, or GMail, or Facebook Or have one project that will be widely used.
