Great video. The video suggests that people should be prepared to expect anything worthwhile to be seriously difficult, even painful.
It's difficult to keep working on something when you thought it would be easy but is actually hard.
The author of the original post seems like he thought coding would be easy and now is disillusioned because coding requires more than he expected.
To work through programming problems, it really helps to be curious and want to learn why something failed. If you don't understand why, you're clearly just changing things until they work. Programming is seriously punishing to those who try do things without understanding why.
