Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>: > Rick Johnson wrote: >> DOLT: "Programming is easy! Once you learn the langauge, >> it's just a matter of fill-in-the-blanks." > > To be fair to this person, for someone who has a natural aptitude for > programming, it can be difficult to appreciate how hard it is for > people who don't. > > When I first started programming, in my early teens, the basic ideas > all seemed very straightforward, and I had no trouble seeing how to > apply them. I unconsciously assumed it would be the same for anyone > else with a reasonable level of intelligence. > > It was a while before it became clear to me that this is not the case > at all.
A junior programmer sees the unlimited possibilities of programming. No montain is too high to climb. A seasoned programmer is elated if they can get anything to work at all. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
