Why most people fail at programming?

Hamad Baloch Rakshani
2 min readJan 24, 2018

It’s been a while since I have written a piece. However, there is a good reason behind it. Lately I have dabbled in different technologies, 4 to be exact.

  1. JQuery
  2. HTML and CSS
  3. Dot net (C#)
  4. Wordpress

Well, Technically I have mentioned name of languages and CMS, as well. But I am guessing you have gotten my point.

I have been scared of programming ever since the intro to programming’s write a code to generate a triangle with *’s.

It was mainly because, unlike making a joke out of myself on stage. Programming didn’t come naturally to me. I had to put effort; whereas, stage was something where I didn’t need to put much effort. But, moreover it was the appreciation which helped in confidence boosting.

When it came to programming, there was loads of research to do beforehand and lack of or almost no appreciation at all. The hippies of dramatic society in our university was a good place to be. It had the essence of 70’s hippie culture.

Too bad, programming classes were more of IBMs of 80’s.

It is safe to assume, programming is no rocket science. Well, obviously I have excluded SpaceX projects from this context. It is as simple as solving a quiz up match. One just needs to stay persistent.

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Hamad Baloch Rakshani

Leads a pack of engineers 🐺 | Legend | Recently dabbled in Management and DevOps 💻 | Movie junkie & 2-books-a-year nerd.