Sure I appreciate it a necessary evil, I just find it very hard to get my head around.....and its hard to enjoy something your not very good at.
Im totally dyslexic and that dose not help when trying to get to grips with a language that doesn't even have the saving grace of phonetics like a spoken language.
It not for lack of trying....on my bookshelf I have books on codding
Programming And Customizing The Avr Microcontroller
Programming Microcontrollers in C 2nd Ed
Programming in C 3rd Ed by Kochan
And 2 copys? of Sams Teach yourself C in 24 hours
But....
1: they are far from an engaging read, and i find it hard to just sit there and read though something soooooo dull.
2: they are on C, and how every you want to dress it up Arduino code is not C, so im stuck in this wired C vs Arduino programming language battle and not enjoying a sing second of it.
Where as, planning, etching, soldering, prototyping and playing with Arduinos and AVRs is Exceptionally fun.....just wish I had the same buzz from programming 
Rant over! ;D