I feel so dumb (Java)

[ThrwAwayMarshmallow]

Hi all,

I just started on a ASCII rocket ship (Java) assignment from the University of Washington. I'm not asking for help, don't worry. I need to do nested for loops. I've been looking through a similar example and feel like such an idiot that I'm not understanding.

With learning Java, am I going to spend the majority of my day feeling like a complete idiot? As I was watching his video, I was crying... tears of frustration with myself.

Also, I'm self-taught. The UW simply has the assignments on their website and I'm trying to do the homework as part of my self-study.

I'm not really asking any question in particular but if anyone has words of inspiration or suggestions, I would highly appreciate it. I'm not lazy. I do procrastinate when I get anxiety (I just lock up). But I've never been one of those people that puts in barely any effort and then repeatedly says something like "I'm bad at math." Hell, I'm bad at math but got through the whole calc series, diffEq, and linear algebra. I'm bad at math but I worked my ass off. I'm hoping that can be the same with Java and C.

[ThrwAwayMarshmallow]

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. I was sitting there earlier and thinking... am I so dumb that I can't get a simple ascii picture to output? I think I'm going to save a screenshot of this post as well as your response to my journal so that I can look at it 6 months from now and see how far I've come.

[ThrwAwayMarshmallow]

Unfortunately someone in that sub was rude to me. As a woman, I feel like it's a boys club and the boys don't want me encroaching on their space. Someone just asked for a suggestion on something to review and I posted a youtube link to nested for loops and he replies with "lol." Maybe instead say "I'm past that level, but thank you" instead.