As a hobby coder, you have the luxury of looking for environments
where almost all the stuff you don't like doing is provided, and
almost all of what you'd like to do is feasible.
In these days, a little over 128 years since Sir William Thomson (as
he was then) wrote:
The object of this machine is to substitute brass for brain in the
great mechanical labour of calculating ...
if you are more interested in Augmenting Your Intellect than in code
for code's sake,
we have made notable progress when substituting silicon for synapses:
https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/A-gallery-of-interesting-
IPython-Notebooks
-Dave