I've got 20 years of experience, but w/e. What have you made?
It is my life goal to make that project though. I'm not totally depressed about it because I did validate parts of the project. But it was a let down.
I'll add that it does require some banging your head against the wall at times. I normally will only test the code after doing a bunch of this stuff. It often doesn't work as I want at that point and I'll spend a day "begging" it to fix all of the problems. I've always been able to get over those hurdles, and I have it think about why it failed and try to bake the reasoning into the docs/tests... to avoid that in the future.