[rarestia]

I learn programming at a much slower rate than what they expected from me in college. After all-nighters trying to write something ridiculously simple, I gave up. Nowadays, I can program a website in PHP and edit canned-code from SourceForge without an issue. I actually enjoy debugging. It’s getting the code down on a blank slate that I struggle with. If someone gets it started for me, I can fill in the blanks.

[throwback]

Yeah, getting your arms around the big picture is difficult. It's stone age, but I still have to flowchart. I'm visual, and a flow chart lays it out in front of me so my brain can follow the paths. IBM assembler was a nightmare in school, but I still flow charted the whole thing. I had a flowchart that ran back and forth through the hallways of my townhouse. People thought I was nuts, but heck the code was close to functional on the first run because the underlying logic was sound. Unfortunately, my skill set is obsolete now, and I've run myself into a cul-de-sac.