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Fortunately, it's far more interesting, but I appreciate the sentiment. I definitely recommend trying your hand at it though. At its best, programming can be a creative process, and it's a joy when you realize something that you first only imagined. However, speaking as someone that never reads the manual, you can also just jump right in. Grab some existing code, and start hacking. Google or Stackoverflow when you hit a wall, and hack some more. I started that way, and at some point between then and now, I found myself coding for sessions unaided, at least in Arc and javascript. I am going to be picking up a new language soon.like, the coding equivalent of having to type numbers into excel