Did a lot of programming without an IDE. Then some years ago, tried an IDE: Opened a project. Looked at the resulting directory (folder) and saw ~50 files with what I knew nothing -- hadn't even started the work yet.
Got rid of the IDE and returned to my favorite tools and the software I was writing.
My favorite tools work fine, and in particular in the directory I'm in I actually know what each file
there is, what it is for, what is in it, where it came from, etc.
In my work, I need to do some programming, that is, software development. So, I do it.
Difficulties are nearly all from poor documentation of other software I need to use. The parts of the programming that are really mine are like cooking lunch -- no problems for my part, but if the pepperoni is not good, that's a problem. To me, programming is, define some variables to store the data, have expressions to manipulate the data, If-Then-Else, Do-While, call-return, input, output, and that's about it.
Got rid of the IDE and returned to my favorite tools and the software I was writing.
My favorite tools work fine, and in particular in the directory I'm in I actually know what each file there is, what it is for, what is in it, where it came from, etc.
In my work, I need to do some programming, that is, software development. So, I do it.
Difficulties are nearly all from poor documentation of other software I need to use. The parts of the programming that are really mine are like cooking lunch -- no problems for my part, but if the pepperoni is not good, that's a problem. To me, programming is, define some variables to store the data, have expressions to manipulate the data, If-Then-Else, Do-While, call-return, input, output, and that's about it.