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?
Six weeks isn’t much at all. Don’t be too hard on yourself. Get used to being okay with Googling shit - you’ll be doing that a lot.
Tbf, DSA is a hard topic. I struggled with them in bootcamp. Two years later, they’re still hard - but much less so. I don’t think they will ever be easy. But less hard is a small victory, and small victories - I take those anytime I can get them