How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code
Took me ten years to learn to code by myself.<p>From playing around with gorillas in QBasic to pretending to know C to learning HTML visually to getting CSS and DOM to trying to remake PacMan in C++ to finally learning Python and Django and Flask and the point of OOP to finally now realizing the modern day shift towards EDP thus how powerful JavaScript really is.<p>Ten years of sucking. To realize I'm not meant to be a programmer because my code is not as efficient, compact, or beautiful enough like the "pros" that keep pushing to GitHub.<p>And that internal chasm, that lack of confidence is what kills it for me. And if I were to do it all over again I would have definitely done all this on other people's time and money instead of my own.<p>But I just keep hacking away because programming is art and until the day I can bring about all the crazy things I know I see in my head that will change the world I will suffer for my art.