I think you hit the nail on the head. As someone who started the bulk of my programming in Python, I found learning Java to be an excercise in frustration as th

I think you hit the nail on the head. As someone who started the bulk of my programming in Python, I found learning Java to be an excercise in frustration as there is so much you have to learn about design patterns and all of that mess. It seems to come up 500x more than in Python which is like here are a bunch of high level data structures and objects and how to use them, so go have fun.