design vs programming

Well, we have finished our first programming course of the program, and it was exactly what i thought it would be. Hard. But I am slowly but surely starting to understand the concepts. I myself, dont find programming natural. Design for me was very much natural for me. I found I spent, and mostly because of my experience with design, triple the amount of time reading and understand how to use visual studios and how to program as opposed to the amount of time I spent with any design program. Hopefully in a couple of years, programming will be as natural to be as design!