a little motivation, anyone?

[Brett g Porter]

Darrell <news at dorb.com> wrote in message
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> Writing code is hard.
> It's hard for everyone, I think :)
> Writing code is fun.
> It's not fun for everyone.
> If it's fun for you then no doubt you are cut out to be a coder:
> Else maybe coding isn't for you.
>
> Hint #1: Look for and steal patterns of how to do things from
>     the code of others. A pattern can be as simple as how
>     to handle command line switches.
>
> Hint #2: Write lots of code.
>
> Hint #3: Read lots of code.

Hint #4: Read lots of books about writing code. Some of my faves:
'The Practice of Programming', Kernighan & Pike
'Code Complete', Steve McConnell
'The Zen of Code Optimization', Michael Abrash