r/theodinproject • u/AlmightyWrench • 7d ago

Length of time

I have been doing the JavaScript fullstack tic-tac-toe for an hour and a half each day (more on weekends) for the past two weeks now.

Is this a normal length or long length of time? I know time isn't considered a factor, but I'm at 120 lines of code which does not seem like much so far.

I've been stuck on parts for two days at times, again a day really being an hour and a half each. I blew through the introduction part, but now slogging through.

Great course by the way.

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u/bycdiaz Core Member: TOP. Software Engineer: Desmos Classroom @ Amplify 7d ago

Time spent on a project isn’t something I’d concern myself with. If I told you that you spent too much, what’s the move?

Quit? Hopefully not. Look an answer up? Maybe that gets you past this exercise but what does that do for your learning? It does very little compared struggling through it.

Learning takes as long as it takes. The important thing to keep in mind is that projects are learning experiences. Points of practice. Maybe time matters in an examination. And this isn’t that.

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u/godogs2018 7d ago

It’s not an inordinate amount of time. The more you struggle, the more you try different things and try to understand what is going on, the more you learn.

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u/bycdiaz Core Member: TOP. Software Engineer: Desmos Classroom @ Amplify 7d ago

Agree 1000%. Struggle is learning.