I remember just learning to code and looking at the compiler and the API book and thinking "There's no way I'll ever learn all this stuff. It looks really hard". Then, as I was doing my assignments I began working on programming problems and remember being thoroughly enthralled with solving those puzzles, making the computer do as I wanted and hunting out those bugs. I remember that feeling of working for 10 - 14 hours and being disappointed that I had to go to bed - and waking up in the middle of the night with a solution to a problem. If coding is what you love doing, then do it. Don't do it because someone tells you it's important to know.