By no means are you dumb. Some corollary of Dunning-Kruger Effect -- your frustration is probably proportional to your ability to think and to operate in this d

By no means are you dumb. Some corollary of Dunning-Kruger Effect -- your frustration is probably proportional to your ability to think and to operate in this domain. My summer project for myself last year was making a big working desk and a rack-mount setup for a workspace at home. I listened to Hal Abelson and Gerry Sussman, recording from 1989 (I think), when they taught on site for HP engineers; SICP in a week. I still had some surprises, things clicked for me. https://overcast.fm/+Do0X1PN6k https://overcast.fm/+Do0X1PN6k https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/ https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussm... I was very fortunate to have been in the first or second batch of CS61A students that Brian Harvey taught at Berkeley. It's still my favorite class, and although it was challenging, I had far more difficult experiences with calculus. Calculus almost broke me. The first time. I completed some of the SICP exercises on morning train commute. Four years after seeing them for the first time. Five years after that, I returned to college for another try at linear algebra, having actually flunked it the first time. All these people seemed to just cruise on by. But actually, everyone hits the wall at some point.