I’ve been learning on and off about programming for 3 years now. Mostly front-end, html/css/js, for school projects. My degree isn’t in CS or IT, so projects that give the opportunity to code are scarce and often short. So I get that I may simply may not have enough hours in coding.
So I’m delighted to be taking CS50 as a Minor at the moment, this has given me the chance to sink a lot of hours in coding, and currently I am in week 5 Data Structures.
But every time I start on the problem sets, I feel overwhelmed and feel like I don’t understand anything. I have to Google/GPT the most basic of things. Even though I’ve been programming regularly the past 6 weeks, I don’t feel as if I have improved and I’m starting to doubt if this is a career for me.
In a year I would like to find a career in development. Have any of you felt this way? And what has helped you get rid of this imposter syndrome?
I see new developers say this all the time but how do you expect to know things without looking them up?
6 weeks really isn’t a lot of time at all.
As you code more you’ll start to notice patterns in code that you can apply elsewhere.
Once you’ve been doing it a long time it’s basically a matter of combining things you’ve done 1000s of times in different ways.
Stick with it, often it’ll “click” after a while.