That's an interesting observation. My experience was different: I learned how to program a bit and found the process so mind-numbingly boring that I gave it up

That's an interesting observation. My experience was different: I learned how to program a bit and found the process so mind-numbingly boring that I gave it up entirely. A developer friend once told me, "I don't have a good feel for a project until I've written the first 1,000 lines" which is literally the moment I decided to stop trying to be a real programmer. As for quitting smoking our experience is different there too. But glad we both quit. :)