Hi there,
I have hit these coding challenges and with a ton of help I’m managing them. I mean LOADS of help sometimes! I can grab together the coding concepts I think I’m meant to be using. Attempt to code it together in a way I pretty much know will be wrong and then get my software engineer friend to explain where it all went wrong and explain why it works.
I get that this is one way of learning however I’m faced with this reasonably simple challenge to do on my own ‘Find the Longest Word in a String’ - and just cannot for the life of me see how to put the concepts together (for loops / reduce(), randomly named variables etc…
I’m not seeking support with this challenge but rather support with my demoralised floundering with learning Javascript and coding in general.
Every now and then against all odds I have solved a coding challenge MYSELF. So incredibly rare though it gives me an encouraging little high.
Most of the time though I’m staring at pages of code (this goes for my Javascript Udemy course too) just perplexed, confused and having unhelpful thoughts of how I will ‘never’ learn it. That I am ‘too old’ (38 ?!) and on really bad days buying into the sexist crap as well and blaming being female (!!??!! only in split seconds of madness).
I have a strong goal of wishing to be self employed (at least partly) within two years so maybe this makes learning coding a bit high stakes sometimes. My current work is at a psychiatric hospital and also a homeless hostel so very different from software…
I was just hoping there might be some reassurance out there hearing how others learn. I’m doing 100 days of code and my intention to do a minimum of an hour a day is fairly solid. I’m just unsure at the amount of help I still need.
My friend is encouraging and calls it ‘pair programming’. He’s very helpful though I often sit there looking like a dog that’s just been shown a card trick
Thanks everyone
Jx