[baddox]

> This is not 'coding' (maybe it is, and we should be doing less of it, and more programming). This is gluing together pre-coded snippets and trying to make it work. Continuing to do this is an impediment to getting better. Thinking that somehow this is what 'coding' is, is missing the point.

That's not fair at all. Off the top of my head, three topics I have searched StackOverflow for a lot are Android development, MongoDB, and MySQL. Each time, I would consider the task I was doing to be programming, despite the fact that I was not building a mobile phone operating system or database myself from scratch.