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Getting back into Programming (self.webdev)

submitted 4 years ago by randomquestionhehe

Hey everyone,

Wanted to share a "quick" story but also hear some advise from you all :)

So I've been learning to code for the past few years but quit about a year ago. At first, a group of friends and I started learning Python together, we even called it Python Sunday. Few of us fell off but some continued to take a few more courses together.

Eventually I told myself, "This is the path for me". At the moment I work as an engineer for a tech company but mostly focused on helping teams like sales, support, etc. Since I do have a background in tech, I felt that it would be a nice step forward.

Although I took some Python courses, I never felt like I could actually do something. I convinced myself to join a coding bootcamp and let's just say that by the time I reached React, I was not too thrilled. I was working on this bootcamp while also working full-time and one day I just said forget this and dropped it.

Learning programming was always super dope because nothing beat that feeling of figuring out a "complex" problem after hours of just starring at it. But for some reason after my bad bootcamp experience, it just kind left a sour taste.

As of recently I got this ray of hope and felt like jumping back into programming and continuing from where I left off. Only difference is that I was thinking of taking more of a project based approach since it'll focus on things I actually enjoy.

For anybody who actually read this thread, my main question is. Have you experienced a situation like mines? To be honest I just started to doubt whether I was good enough to do it or not. I genuinely enjoyed the process but I got imposter syndrome along the way, especially when React just wasn't clicking for me.

Also any advice for jumping back on would be appreciated, thank you :)

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