Hi all, I just need to vent :slight_smile: I know we all here feel this from time to time , but damn , there are sooo many times that I say to myself that I’m ready to call it quits and drop programming for good! It’s just a bottomless pit it seems like at times of more things to need to learn , …

[image] torentrap: I say to myself that I’m ready to call it quits and drop programming for good! The elephant method: http://ocw.uc3m.es/ingenieria-informatica/principios-de-ingenieria-informatica/the-elephant-technique

Quitting is not an option dude ! You should make sure to apply the things you’ve learned in real projects. Projects not only makes learning interesting but when you finish one project successfully , you get to know a ton of things and get a confidence boost. Just make sure to apply what you’ve l…

maybe reading the answers to this other topics will help you a bit: [image] When Does It Start To Make Sence? You Can Do This! I wanted to title the subject: “When Does It Start To Click”, but I didn’t want to mislead people, lol. Hello, Background: I am fairly new to …

I’m unable to quit though , I may think it , but I would never be able to actually do it . Which is more stressful actually because when I feel totally overwhelmed there is no way out! :stuck_out_tongue: & it’s dudette :slight_smile:

Took a two month break from codecamp. Had to figure out how to get water in my cabin. Hard, really hard. But guess what, I did it, and now have pure running well water. Moral of this is, never give up, take a break, try different ways of figuring it out. Coding is interesting, it’s exciting. …

Thanks for the replies guys, I will go on, I never quit, just whine from time to time :grin: I know web dev is mostly still new to me. I studied C++ for a few years and somehow that seems much easier (from what I remember) then Javascript/React etc. Javascript just seems so non-intuitive.

@torentrap ( @ieahleen I meant to reply to OP) I burned through Responsive Web Design. Lowered my head and pushed through it. Got to the last 5 problems and saw that they were all projects. I spent several days writing the 1st one from scratch. Learned a ton. Second and third i took my time and got…

For me, I started to really get HTML and CSS once I started doing the projects. I had a okay grasp of them, and I am still learning more about them even now, but like the other post stated practice makes perfect (or at least good enough, lol) I also would suggest the other post that is mentioned a…

Thanks all :slight_smile: I think I started to stress out when I started the React course here. When I feel I barely understand JS, Jquery & all the rest so far :stuck_out_tongue: But if I move slower I worry I’m too slow/taking too long , that that will be working against me. Oh well, I just k…

you can do it!just keep going and you will reach your goal!

I feel so overwhelmed and hopeless at times

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I feel so overwhelmed and hopeless at times

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