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How to deal with feeling stuck?

Celestinno on June 20, 2022

Since I've started my developer journey 2 months agos I feared this day would come: I feel stuck. I learned HTML, CSS and Javascript, then I start...
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Aaron Reese

Firstly, 2 months is nothing. I've been doing this 30 years and regularly feel stuck
The secret to becoming a great programmer is learning to break complex and complicated problems into small and completable steps.
Find a project that will 'fix' an itch that you have; perhaps auto-post on Facebook or scrape a special offers page for a local store. Fix one step at a time (find the New Post button using Selenium and CV2 image recognition, get the header for the offers page using getElementById() ) and take it from there...
Post your problem here if you want suggestions as to how to break it down.