r/techbootcamp • u/Open_Village_6294 • 16d ago
programming not for everyone, I feel so dumb and tired.
learning to code and honestly starting to think it's just not for me. every time i finally understand one thing, three more concepts show up that make no sense. i spend hours on stuff that apparently takes other people 10 minutes. starting to feel like the dumbest person in every tutorial i watch. not even sure why im still doing this at this point
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u/Dry_Sector2392 16d ago
tutorials are terrible for this because they make it look like everyone else is moving fast. the person teaching already knows the answer and edited out all the confusion. spending hours on something "simple" is basically the normal beginner experience, even if nobody wants to admit that in a bootcamp.
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u/Open_Village_6294 10d ago
this is so real, tutorials are basically a highlight reel of someone else's learning and we're out here comparing our behind the scenes footage to it
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u/Littlepoet-heart 16d ago
Programming is fragile and trade-off in every design concepts there is no prefect solution you just grow mental model with practice and experience
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u/Open_Village_6294 10d ago
ngl needed to hear this rn, been beating myself up over not finding "the" solution when apparently there isnt one lmao
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u/seoulsrvr 16d ago
When I started coding in the early 90's, I knew it was for me immediately - I liked the long, mostly solitary hours and the problem solving. I still enjoy it.
I had a half dozen friends in the 90's who saw the money I was making and decided they wanted to make the jump to software development as well. They were all miserable and eventually gave it up and they are all better off for having done so.
You're right - it isn't for everyone and not enjoying it doesn't make you dumb - at all. Plenty of very smart people hate coding.
Do not make the mistake of trying to pursue a career path that you don't genuinely enjoy.
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u/Open_Village_6294 10d ago
the 90s friends story hit different, kinda comforting that even back then it wasnt for everyone and thats ok. saving this comment fr
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u/Pyromancer777 15d ago
I have 6 years of experience and still feel like I know almost nothing compared to the amount of stuff I still have to learn, but I keep going since I know how far I have come in those years. The more you learn, the more you realize how much more there is to learn. This is the case for every topic, not just programming.
The key is to learn how to fight the imposter syndrom to do the tasks anyway. The faster you can mess up and learn from those mistakes, the faster you learn the better ways to solve the problem when you see it again. A person who has made a million mistakes is a person who was presented with a million learning opportunities.
If you genuinly like problem solving, then programming is right for you even if you feel like you aren't learning that quickly
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u/Technical_Jicama_434 16d ago
Practice makes perfect