Word of advise to anyone considering learning to program - DON'T DO IT!!

It gives you so much stress

I have been working on a program for a few hours today (Few months of work total in it) and it needs to connect to a remote database, I finally got it working after doing a LOT of tweaking with the server and program code, then I shutdown mysql on my local computer to make sure that wasn't being used at all - Then the program stopped.
So as you would...started up mysql on my local computer again to search for the problem - But nooooo the program has other ideas...Can't get it to work now...

It seems to want to connect to the remote database using the root user (Even though the root user isn't in the code, program settings, myodbc connection or anywhere else that I can see )

One error after another....why do I do it, especially for a free program :lol:

Well you're accumulating experience, that's a plus.

Yep and when you find the error you will celebrate with a beer, pat yourself on the back and swear you will never do it again, but you will. Ah the pleasures of computer life.

Sooo True, I was just surfing throught and I caught a glimpse of this thread's title. You get better with time tho. And you learn more but it's not for people who don't like challenges or who can't focus on details.

Yeah that is the worst John, but nothing makes me more madder when I use the word 'case' in a MySQL row.. used to get me EVERY time

Isn't programming annoying

That's job security! At least from my perspective.

Yes, it's incredibly tedious, slow, frustrating, maddening at times, but can be rewarding especially if you are coding for yourself, as opposed to your day job.

to me... i would rather code then to design... I love programming.. and I learn more and more everyday! It is however stressful and can be a pain but thats the joy of it lol!

to bad noone likes to pay a web programmer what he's worth! =p

I'm beginning to think that programming is very annoying. I have a problem and that is that I'm crap at learning programming. I've tried time after time but I can't seem to do it. I have therefore decided that I should spend more time on my other pastime. Photography.

I have many a indentation in my desk from drumming my head against it. The worst time was trying to debug an exception ASP.Net was raising. (ThreadAbortException) - turned out it was an exception the .Net framework was raising itself when we used a response.redirect from within a try catch block. This was back when .Net was new(ish) and the online third party documentation / tutorials were scarce.

The reward will pay off and it will also give you a sense of accomplishment

I keep thinking I should take up programming again. I havent done it for a long time now.

Necessary evil over here. Have to keep pace with new developments and that requires learning as you go.
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I like things that keep you learning new skills.

Just an FYI... I still havent started any programming since my last reply in the thread

errors are annoying

Programming - you either love or hate it. It's one of those things. Personally, I hate it. I worked on basic C++ for some time but never enjoyed/got the hang of it. It will admit to feeling pleased when I got something to work but it was something I never needed in the first place! That goes for anything difficult that you manage/accomplish. Eg, you might hate cutting the lawn but doesn't it look great when you're done? - Yes, I do like cutting the lawn! Come to think of it, cutting the lawn isn't very difficult but you get the idea!

Matt