Coding is the easiest part. Understanding the actual problem and solving it is the hard part.
> A lot of coding is simply banging your head against the wall, search SO over and over, changing things around, until it does what you want.
It doesn't look like programming to me. Yes, sometimes we miss something, so our code doesn't do exactly what we want it to do, but when we realize it we just fix the code. This view of coding resembles an improved way to write Shakespeare with monkeys.
> A lot of coding is simply banging your head against the wall, search SO over and over, changing things around, until it does what you want.
It doesn't look like programming to me. Yes, sometimes we miss something, so our code doesn't do exactly what we want it to do, but when we realize it we just fix the code. This view of coding resembles an improved way to write Shakespeare with monkeys.