Eating Bitter Is Nice
It was far past midnight. My wife and kids had long gone to bed. But sleep was not an option for me. I had to figure it out. So I tweaked the code again, for the googolth time, and hit run. Hmm, looks promising. If I click here, the program should call the “compute next move” function. Yes. And if I click here, that function should call itself. Good. Now, if I click here, I should get…not that. Argh. More tweaks. More errors. More hours tick by. Learning programming is hard, I thought. My next thought? Yes, and that’s why I like it.
– Roger Collier, Programming is hard. That’s precisely why you should learn it