>> For a while now I've been considering abandoning
>> learning programming as I find it hard going.

Programming is a required skill.  Stick with it.   Next, you might try 
reading the currently playing films off a website.  As a first step, go 
to www.google.com and grab the whole web page, and print out the first 
200 characters.

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