Programming itself I think is fairly easy if you have the mindset for it. What isnt easy is making your program work with existing technology and programs. Sam

Programming itself I think is fairly easy if you have the mindset for it. What isnt easy is making your program work with existing technology and programs. Same goes for writing vs reading code. Maybe we teach and learn programming all wrong. For instance, when learning a natural language you dont read a manual on the grammar and then go off and try to write a novel looking up vocabulary along the way... There is absolutely no way you would be succesful with that approach, you would invent your own messed up version of the language that seems absolutely strange to everyone else. But that is sort of what we expect people to do when they learn to program. It might be better to spend a year reading and dissecting good code of varying complexity in a debugger before you ever even write a line of code.