I really love computer science, coding and mostly all the amazing things you can do with this knowledge, i feel i finally landed in my world.

I’m doing a Javascript course now and while it is really engaging to learn about how a language like that works and how to build with it, i’m getting quite tired and frustrated…

Now, i’d say i am quite meticulous when studying and i use some studying techniques to really integrate what i’m learning, but that means that 1h or even less lesson can take me all the time i have to study in a day to be understood, noted down and then repeated over the following days…

There are a lot of quite complicated concepts to understand and memorize, and, as i’m also working, sometimes it gets quite tiring.

I feel like there’s this huge amount of never ending work and concepts before i can actually start do something cool with the knowledge i have, and i really want to start doing something cool.

I re-started to study after many years so i’d say it’s also because of that if i’m not really used to it and i can’t process much informations at the time.

How can you get better into gaining knowledge? how can you prevent getting fatigued?

  • calebubs@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I feel like there’s this huge amount of never ending work and concepts before i can actually start do something cool with the knowledge i have, and i really want to start doing something cool.

    I have been a software engineer for almost a decade and have used at least half a dozen languages professionally with as many frameworks and platforms. There are still concepts I don’t understand; that is the nature of our work. There are always more things to know.

    Part of the job is being able to emotionally grapple with this. We can’t know everything, but we can try to get the job done with what we know right now.

    I look back at my past work and laugh at how little I knew—but I still am proud of the work I did because I brought real value to the companies I worked for. I could probably do what took me 6 months at the beginning of my career in less than a week today. But I still did the work and helped my team. And what takes me 6 months right now I will probably be able to do in a week, if I were to try it 10 years from now.

    Keep your head up. I would wager that you are more qualified than you think.