Back when syntax was a challenge for me and documentation more scarce generally, and, perhaps even more than I’d like to admit to this day, I find myself mentally thinking of programming as ‘begging a computer to do things.’
Then it goes from begging a computer to do something to cursing the designers of the latest popular framework for doing The Thing in a Slightly Better But Radically Different Way. Oh great, we get to learn how to do this basic Thing for the eighth time, hopefully this time is sticks (it won't).
