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Software Development or Programming has Never been easy but...

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  I suck at programming, but I love it. What should I do? Back in 2013 when I first started learning how to code at University, I had a very hard time understanding how to implement loops. Whenever my classmates finished all their loop exercises in record time while I struggled with the very first problem, I thought to myself -  man, I suck at programming! At the end of the semester, with enough practice, implementing loops came as second nature to me. About seven months ago, I had to develop a full-fledged Android app for an unit I was doing. The app was meant to consume an API which I had to create myself, call a bunch of public APIs as well, do a lot of math with the information and then plot the results. I couldn’t for the life of me understand how AsyncTasks worked for making calls to the API. Moreover, I went completely blank while implementing fragments. Basically,  I sucked!  Real bad! In the end, though, I had managed to get a working app up and running: To be honest, I still