The Importance of Gradual Ramp in Personal Programming

Mark O'Mara: I think there's several things that conspire against the informal novice personal programmer. He says ideally, you would take these small, small steps over and over. And some steps are a little higher, right? But the experience you have there is crucial to the experience, he says. "If a game is incredibly hard on the first level, you just got to give up"