> But just like it's hard to become a good musician if you shy away from sheet music, programming is hard if you shy away from command line and a little web sea

> But just like it's hard to become a good musician if you shy away from sheet music, programming is hard if you shy away from command line and a little web searching to know what $PATH is. I like this analogy a lot. You can't just write code and then say "here, I'm done" most of the time. You need to know the environment it's around and what it needs to interact with/what will interact with it.