>You're never done learning, you never reach a point where you can whip up nontrivial projects without at least a little bit of floundering I agree that you're

>You're never done learning, you never reach a point where you can whip up nontrivial projects without at least a little bit of floundering I agree that you're never done learning, but you shouldn't "flounder" forever. Somewhere between 4 and 10 years you should be done floundering. :) Sure you may need to check your API reference for specific function names and parameters, but there are very few aspects of my main languages that I don't just know without having to look them up at this point. And that experience translates even to languages you haven't spent a lot of time learning. With less than a dozen hours of JavaScript exposure, I understood the syntax of his "OMG!" examples. It does eventually get easier. It seems like he's giving up too soon, but he's also (seemingly) refusing to just ask questions. There must be forums where he could ask about syntax like that.