The thing I struggle with most is staying up-to-date. It's hard to code from 9-5 and come home at night and continue to learn. It's important to maintain a healthy work-life balance, and I still struggle with this. What is the hardest thing you've experienced on your coding journey?
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So far there is no hard thing if you make up your mind and minimize your need. However, I understand your concern as I was there in those shoes at some point of time but I could overcome by preparing a proper time-table. Although, the hardest thing was sticking up to the timetable strictly. Give it a try... It might be hard at first but you'll be fine.
For me so far it’s being hyper aware of all the things I don’t know yet. I’m just learning, but there are some specific challenges ahead that I’m afraid of. And logically I think I’ll be able to learn these things one piece at a time, but until I’ve done that they’re making me pretty nervous. I’m also guessing that there are more of them...that once I check off the things on my current list, I’ll be able to see bigger, scarier things further down the road. I’m just hoping that my feeling of confidence will grow faster than the challenges.
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Still cant understand it fully.
That. I agree with everything you said.
I found context helps a lot. Each library, framework, language I learn makes it easier to learn the next when I need too.
So I listen to a lot of podcasts and reach about other tech. Then when I need that for a solution, it’s available. The other part was focusing on the core language itself. Knowing React for example is fine, but it’s better to know JavaScript.
according to me is not hard to learn, its harder to forget the old practices and keep them using them when even they are not wanted just because you are fond of having a thing in a certain way. That's more hard for me at least.
I´d say the hardest part are the first steps, learning how to link real world problems (or objects) to programmatic solutions. Or that's the impresion I get from observing my students...
Almost Every developer has the same kind of problem after few years of development,
So it is not possible to be master in any language even its you native language but every language has same kind of blue print.. so we can relate new technology with exiting one 75% problem will get clear
Understanding the way I learn. Having some kind of learning disability and some depression, I had to work WITH and not AGAINST the way I take in knowledge.
Being able to get a good depth of knowledge in a topic, while still having the ability to learn outside that topic. Typically people will call this T shaped skills.
innolution.com/resources/glossary/...
That the "code under development" has to be tested and that requires a different mindset, "Hat".
I enjoy both and someone else should always test my code after I've tested it. Getting code to execute and finding code that breaks result in different "Ahas!" :-) Happy Cod(Test)ing.