Computers are stupid creatures. They do exactly what we tell them to do, even if it's not what was intended. They only do exactly what we tell them to do and nothing more, so a programmer's job is to take a generalized statement and break it down into individual actions.
Writing code isn't hard. In fact, it's really easy. It's like learning a foreign language that uses just a small subset of English. Admittedly this is much easier if you already speak English...
The hard part is wrapping your brain around every nook and cranny of what's going on. You've got to have both a 10,000 foot view and a 1 inch view of what's going on in order to write good code. What's the overall purpose of the piece you're writing? What's the purpose of this one single line? What's the purpose of this one single character on this line?
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