Hey dude keep at it! Everyone has to go through this one way or another you just chose to go through it while in a MS program. I don't know why you would openly

Hey dude keep at it! Everyone has to go through this one way or another you just chose to go through it while in a MS program. I don't know why you would openly apply to this without knowing your way around programming but hey, you're in so keep going! People often tend to overlook the pain and growth/development that happened and just look at the end result. Meaning when you see a top performer people are always mesmerized as to how they currently look. They didn't care to look at the million times he sucked,fell, felt like quitting, etc. What I would do is try to go full submersion into it (its helped me speed up). Meaning, instead of taking that 1 hour free time period to watch Netflix go and listen to an interesting software development interview, coding video etc. Read up on some tech blogs, go to the different subreddits, theres soo much out there! Best of luck