Well, we’ve always heard of “the XY problem,” and here we see where those kinds of problems come from.

When you are struggling to learn a language (or, struggling to use it without taking the time to learn it first...?), it does not pay to be a bulldog.   You will consistently find that, having grabbed on to that first toy and worked very hard to shred it completely into tatters, you have, in the end, accomplished nothing useful at all.   Oh, “you wrote a program,” all right, and eventually you even got it to work!   Unfortunately, the same task could have been accomplished with a “one-liner” in Perl or even awk.   If you didn’t first take the time to study the problem and to determine what is the best all-around way to solve it, you are spinning a little wheel in a little cage.

Folks who take that approach “wash out” very quickly, as they are a waste of time and money for their employers, anywhere in the world.   Remember, this is engineering.