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Now, one of the things you often hear from people is, “Oh, programming is easy.
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Every beginner, everybody can do it.
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If you're an 8 year old, if you're a 60 year old, everybody can learn to code and it's super easy.”
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And my response to that is that it's really really irresponsible for people to say this because, quite
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honestly, programming is hard.
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Like, don't fool yourself, and don't listen to people who say like, “Oh yeah,
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so easy.”
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Yeah maybe like the first part,
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like, you know, when you just create like a variable and you add 2 to it.
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Yeah that's easy.
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But it's hard
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like actually being able to master code.
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It's not easy.
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It's definitely not easy.
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And, you know, you can't think like, “Oh, why is it that everybody's saying it's so easy,
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but like I'm finding it so hard?
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Does that mean I'm dumb?”
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It's not true.
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It's a hard thing that you're doing.
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And just by getting this far you've really shown what you're made of.
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And you've already learned so much.
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But, you know, the other sort of side where people flip to you as well is like, “Programming’s impossible.
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Like you either have to be like a genius or you're not going to get it.”
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And that's not true either, because, you know, very often like I look at like, you know, people, students
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who say like, “Oh, you know, like you're so great, like, I can't be like you.” But like, there is nothing,
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there is nothing that anybody has on you.
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Like if you go on YouTube and you look at all the developers who talk about, like, a day in the life of
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the developer, or, you know, I am a developer.
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Like, if you look at those people, or me, like there is no difference between these developers and these
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people who have learned it and you. Like nobody is better than anybody.
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It's just the amount of work that somebody has put in.
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If you put in more work you end up with more results.
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That's all it is.
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So what I want to say is that, don't be fooled by these two things people say: programming is easy or
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programming is really hard and impossible. They’re both not true. Programming is hard, but it's doable, and
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it's doable by you as long as you keep going like you have been.
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Then you're going to get there.
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And I believe in you.
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So keep going and we're going to do great.