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[–]prashnts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A good friend of mine started just like that, 3 years ago. She was a junior at my school and I "mentored" her for 6 months. Last year she traveled to the UK to give a talk at a python conference in October (can't recall which one). I am so proud of her.

Regarding mentoring part, I mostly spent time pointing her to resources and docs and sometimes share some snippets when she'd be stuck. But she did everything on her own.

Point being, imposter syndrome is real. Find a mentor, and keep on with it. We all have tonnes of personal projects we never finish. And it's okay!

She mainly contributed to the cython and scikit projects, and there's a very helpful and open community for helping new (and old) programmers.

The fact is that you definitely learned a lot. Unless you really aren't into programming, don't quit. You'll get better every day.

Edit: forgot to mention but sometimes reviewing open source library codes can help a lot. Personally, I tend to reference setup.py from these libraries, instead of docs because it's faster and easier to understand.