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When my brain was younger and I was going through my first real programming gig/hazing ritual I felt largely the same. I was lucky to have a boss that let me go

When my brain was younger and I was going through my first real programming gig/hazing ritual I felt largely the same. I was lucky to have a boss that let me go at my own pace and build up from small self contained procedural scripts, to several related classes, to practicing design patterns by writing my own datase abstraction layer and dB access objects, then controllers, then templating scheme, and by the time I was done “practicing” I was only halfway lost and broken when I jumped into a sprawling framework that handled all this for me :-) It is just exercising your short term memory that hurts your brain and causes all that stress and you’ll get better. Soon all those layers of abstraction and the way they relate will be more muscle memory. Like driving. You’ll “glance at your mirrors” when merging and it won’t seem so stressful. It just takes time and practice Also, stackoverflow is man pages for programmers

HNUser34159 7y ago
When I "write" Python it's more like stitching together individual pieces into something that does the job. Can't use stackoverflow on a certification exam.
- Ill_ban_myself 7y ago
  You’ll learn the libraries you’re stitching together and/or the important details of the framework you’re working with when/as things break or as you get requirements for things you’ve never done before. Production programming as opposed to academic programming is about writing as little of your own code as possible. Because we all suck at writing code :-) Certifications are another matter. I’ve found the ones worth having take a career to prep for and the ones your boss tells you to get can be passed by studying a cheat sheet online for a couple hours.
  - HNUser34159 7y ago
    The Azure Administrator Associate exam drills hard on their Powershell CLI stuff. I threw up and had to take a nap after doing the practice exam earlier today. Based on the labs I've done, and other materials, I'd say it's NOT a "cheat sheet" exam. It's really sorting out syntax and structures that fries my brain. Code never "sticks" with me, and I'm in a constant state of bootstrapping, for lack of a better term.
    - Ill_ban_myself 7y ago
      https://www.learningtree.com/courses/8542/microsoft-azure-administrator-az-103/ https://www.learningtree.com/courses/8542/microsoft-azure-ad... Are you taking the cert to get a job or is your job making you get the cert? Getting your employer to pay for training and the actual cert is definitely the way to go. I have always discouraged anyone looking to get the cert first
      - HNUser34159 7y ago
        I can't share too much detail. Long story short, I have to get that cert asap. (as in, within the next week or so). Work is covering it, and last week I did a 4 day training. There's a lot to the exam I get, simply from experience. I'm getting slaughtered on the Azure CLI stuff since I simply cannot get the syntax to stick, no matter how many times I re-run through the labs.
        Vaskivo 7y ago
        Maybe your anxiety comes from the pressure to do the cert and not it's contents. Do you feel you're not getting it or that you're not getting it fast enough? The latter can evolve into the former. And perpetuate the anxiety loop.
        HNUser34159 7y ago
        Mostly hardlocking on code, and issues committing syntax to memory. Which of course, given the extremely short timeframe (need to be certified in the next week or so) probably does amplify inherent exam anxiety.

HNUser34159 7y ago

When I "write" Python it's more like stitching together individual pieces into something that does the job. Can't use stackoverflow on a certification exam.

Ill_ban_myself 7y ago
You’ll learn the libraries you’re stitching together and/or the important details of the framework you’re working with when/as things break or as you get requirements for things you’ve never done before. Production programming as opposed to academic programming is about writing as little of your own code as possible. Because we all suck at writing code :-) Certifications are another matter. I’ve found the ones worth having take a career to prep for and the ones your boss tells you to get can be passed by studying a cheat sheet online for a couple hours.
- HNUser34159 7y ago
  The Azure Administrator Associate exam drills hard on their Powershell CLI stuff. I threw up and had to take a nap after doing the practice exam earlier today. Based on the labs I've done, and other materials, I'd say it's NOT a "cheat sheet" exam. It's really sorting out syntax and structures that fries my brain. Code never "sticks" with me, and I'm in a constant state of bootstrapping, for lack of a better term.
  - Ill_ban_myself 7y ago
    https://www.learningtree.com/courses/8542/microsoft-azure-administrator-az-103/ https://www.learningtree.com/courses/8542/microsoft-azure-ad... Are you taking the cert to get a job or is your job making you get the cert? Getting your employer to pay for training and the actual cert is definitely the way to go. I have always discouraged anyone looking to get the cert first
    - HNUser34159 7y ago
      I can't share too much detail. Long story short, I have to get that cert asap. (as in, within the next week or so). Work is covering it, and last week I did a 4 day training. There's a lot to the exam I get, simply from experience. I'm getting slaughtered on the Azure CLI stuff since I simply cannot get the syntax to stick, no matter how many times I re-run through the labs.
      - Vaskivo 7y ago
        Maybe your anxiety comes from the pressure to do the cert and not it's contents. Do you feel you're not getting it or that you're not getting it fast enough? The latter can evolve into the former. And perpetuate the anxiety loop.
        HNUser34159 7y ago
        Mostly hardlocking on code, and issues committing syntax to memory. Which of course, given the extremely short timeframe (need to be certified in the next week or so) probably does amplify inherent exam anxiety.