The struggle against the machine - will it ever get better?

Question

Since I've started writing code, I've made my peace with the fact that writing is the smaller, finding errors the larger part. At least I improve a little with every line debugged.

What's hard for me is the stuff *around* coding: Operating systems, installing stuff, figuring out hardware issues...

Few days ago I tried to get a simple Python script to run on Android; what should work - like using QPython or Pydroid - didn't, for no discernable reason.

Yesterday I tried to install Java, just that. I compiled my first code, it worked; few hours later I try the same again - failure. Compiler doesn't match JRE. Okay, compile it for an older version. Failure again.

Look it up in a book - doesn't work.

Search online for an eternity, guessing what may work and what's just bs.

You end up spending hours of your time getting stuff to run, which you could spend writing code. It's frustrating and discouraging.

Does this get any better with experience or are experienced coders also having that sort of issues?

Answer 1

HonFu I have faced the same issue for many times. And I have spent more than days to figure out the problem. Just work with the new technology and you will get used to it.

P.S: Check you have JDK 7 or 8 because android doesn't support other versions

Answer 2

Ah, okay, so for Android I have to boil it down to Java 8 max anyway?

I see, good to know, thanks...