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> So you spend a month learning how to almost be able to write a for loop in JavaScript, and then you realize you have no idea why you would ever need to know w
by bnb 12y ago
> So you spend a month learning how to almost be able to write a for loop in JavaScript, and then you realize you have no idea why you would ever need to know what a for loop is, and even less of an idea of why it's useful.
This is a carbon copy of my life as a programmer right now.
I've made the decision to just fucking do it about 50 times, but each time I get barely started and get so frustrated with myself for not understanding and not knowing what to look for that I give up. I know that's another point where I just have to sit, searching, until I find the answer, but it seems that from my profound lack of understanding of the basics of the language (JavaScript; despite doing the Codecademy course, and the CodeSchool Node.js and Express.js courses) that I will have to do that for every minute step that I take in the program. It just seems so overwhelming that I become paralyzed in my desire to push on, but feeling that I know I won't make any progress.