Lots of great advice already. There will always be people smarter and better than you. All you can do is do your best. It's hard to be a programmer in a world

Lots of great advice already. There will always be people smarter and better than you. All you can do is do your best. It's hard to be a programmer in a world where 99% of every article about programming is some sort of epic tale of mindblowing success. What those stories don't tell you is the road it took to get there. Most success stories are results of the team banging their heads against the wall for months or years until they found what works. The life of a programmer is a neverending series of fixing your own, or if you're unlucky other people's, mistakes. There is no such thing as a perfect computer program. Occasionally you get to see the results of your work have positive impact on something or someone. Savor those moments, they don't come often for most of us.