What was your major setback when you first started out coding and how did you overcome it?

Answer 1

I learned a lot but didn't know what I'll do with the knowledge 😅
I also didn't understand the mathematical terms for not practicing... As the internet wasn't very good...

Answer 2

When I first started, the internet wasn't this amazing machine that it is now, so I couldn't easily ask people for help, I didn't know programmers offline, and resources weren't free so I had to figure out how to buy books.

To resolve the first set of issues, I started to build online stuff and then interacted with that community. Through it, I found another programmer who was nice enough to advise me how to get better or help if I ran into problems, but since it was just 1 person, it wasn't a reliable resource. However, this caused me to get better by running into problems and having to figure it out for myself; caused me to rely upon my own ability instead of someone else's and this helped strengthen my logic/problem-solving muscles. Beyond that, it caused me to learn a great deal through the experience itself.

As for the last issue, my resolve was doing odd jobs for neighbors (yard word, clean garage/house, etc...) so that I could afford to buy a book. I would also wait for libraries to have book sales and would scout them for programming books. When I was 15, I signed up for a class on VB at a community college and learned a great deal from the instructor there also. When you don't have resources, be resourceful.

Programming is something that's difficult and takes a while to properly learn. My best advice that I can give is to NOT GIVE UP on it. It's easy to get discouraged when you're having trouble or can't figure something out, but moving past those things is the most rewarding feeling in the world, especially when you finally arrive at that place where you feel confident in your abilities with it.

Answer 3

Understanding pointers. Writing more code.

Answer 4

picking the wrong programming language to start with, and everything becoming too confusing.
Personally i think you should either choose Python or Java for your first high-level language then learn C, then if you really want to go more low level learn Assembler.

Answer 5

First setback for me was where to start and how to apply everything i learnt. Overcame by starting practicing with small projects.

Answer 6

Stuck in tutorial hell.

Please do yourself a favor and CODE, learning basics is awesome and you will always have your reference guide on your table but you'll never reach your goals if you just "learn" using tutorials

Answer 7

Understanding MergeSort and QuickSort algorithms with recursion. I am on it right now!!!!! Help...I need a book

Answer 8

applying what i learn on a project.....i just had the knowledge but didn't know how to use it..i got better through multiple practices

Answer 9

I was eager to learn more languages at the same time which got me confused.

Answer 10

Assembly I gave four times exams to pass.
Never understood it. :P

I passed it when the professor changed.

Answer 11

Getting the Java extention for VSC to work properly

Answer 12

One day I suddenly opened web inspector, saw some unknown. It was HTML tags! I started with HTML then JavaScript and CSS. After Web I started learning web frameworks, Python, Ruby and Java.

Answer 13

You cant expect to move smoothly with learning if at the beginning you read 100 words explanation but dont understand 90 of them 😂 I quit my first language, visual math was too complicated.

Answer 14

The first is to learn Html