Agree about the setup totally. I also find that examples in docs and on web sites (foo, bar, baz etc) make learning harder than it should be. Real world examples always help, especially initially. For example, how can you use currying, decorators and meta programming in Python? Difficult! (But of course, I know that now!!)

I think we should explain to people why the job is exciting and rewarding and adds value to organizations everywhere (hopefully...) There is nothing special about programming; it's just another job, that happens to be in high demand. Showing respect for other jobs, and enticing others to want to join our profession should be in everyone's interests!

Only partly flippant: "never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after"

I don't! I think it is important to maintain a sense of balance. A lot of the "customers" of our programming assignments probably have exhausting jobs too. I like the idea of the humble programmer.

Writing maintainable business logic

On a mainframe, OS/VS1 On a PC (microcomputer) cp/m