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When learning something the right way, you wont ever get around "boring programming". Software engineering usually is at least 60% analysis and preparation, and 40% programming. "Fun programming" is really rare in higher education. You could try some IT beginners course, they usually do funnier stuff to get their interest in IT, and so got more raw programming, usually of simple games.

In general software doesnt have to be a boring thing. Software is software and so means any kind of program to be run on a computer.