Huh. This must be a generational thing. When I started learning to code 20 years ago, there wasn't any hand-holding. There were college courses and textbooks

Huh. This must be a generational thing. When I started learning to code 20 years ago, there wasn't any hand-holding. There were college courses and textbooks and sometimes mentors and ultimately your own ability to work things out from documentation and first principles. My projects grew in scope as I got better at it, but I never thought it was anything but awesome. Then again, I never set out to "be a developer". I was bitten by the coding bug as a kid, and tripped over the discovery, as an adult, that it paid pretty well.