Computer tools are excellent! You can solve very complex problems within a very short time. With computer based tools your production increases. But half of the last year I spent diggin’ myself into new tools, scripting languages, user interfaces or code syntax. Sure, I could stay at one specific tool and push it to its boundaries. But (another fact of our time): every job need different tools to get the optimum result.

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No matter what you do. At every step in programming there are traps. The most simple steps in thinking can make the hardest step in coding. It happened more than once, that the last detail, the final polishing can make your whole program structure obsolete. Humans and computers are far away from each other.

I am not sure if we have to live with that weight, or if things are getting better by everyday practise. If I have an idea then I think A->B. Then I start coding. It really starts good at A, but then some problem occur and the remaining evening is debugging, searching the web, search in forums etc.. I really hope, that programimng skills enhance by really good practise like every crafting skill does.

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