How to stay Motivated while learning to Code.

 

In this article we are  going to talk about how to keep yourself motivated while learning to code. Many students have gone through this situation when they are learning to code, at some point they feel like its not working out anymore, I should stop this. I heard from many students that  I have been learning this thing for a month and  I am not understanding, i learned this and then i forget what I learned  and I am just giving up or I am quitting, sometimes people end up quitting and i just want to tell you what to expect and why software development could be perceived as something that's hard.

In reality nothing new is supposed to be easy. So if you think it's hard of course anything new is hard what you don't know is hard but i want to give you a perspective as to what you can expect that process to feel like when you're learning. Let's say  you have been learning to code for three months where should you be after three months how should it feel after a year after a couple of years?  To be a confident software developer it takes about four years to be fully confident and just be able to look at code and say okay let's  get started. Most students take a lot of time to learn and that's just you know it takes  a lot of time to learn, although there are shorter paths to getting your foot in the door in tech. The full stack developer has a much wider breadth of knowledge so it's going to take you longer to learn all that takes a year so obviously it varies depending on which path you choose but in  both paths you have to work hard every single day, so right off the bat if you're somebody that is disciplined or that is somebody that doesn't give up.

 

Now let's talk about how difficult it is to become a software developer? Just like learning anything new, it takes a lot of work no one was born a good software Developer, every  prodigy coder that you see out there put in the work okay and it all depended on how much passion they had in that given field and they became a prodigy because of that passion they continue to work it's easier to push through something that you enjoy so if you  enjoy software development but you are struggling trust me there's nothing to worry about if you enjoy it you're going to master it you just have to keep  it doing , i get emails from students saying you know I have been working on this thing for three weeks and  maybe it's not for me I am giving up and i look at that email I am like oh my god you're giving up just after three weeks that's ridiculous,  let me give you perspective so that you understand how  the journey is to becoming a software developer looks like.

 

Anything new when you are learning it you need to forget it it's about the process of repetition you learn something and then you forget it and then you learn it again you forget again you learn it you keep forgetting the more iterations of this learn forget learn forget learn forget the more iterations of these the faster you are going to  learn something. 

Anything in the world whether it's singing whether it's lifting weights  anything you want to learn something it requires you to forge. Let me tell you the process of coding is just like any other challenging endeavor out there, it's just like you know  when kids are first introduced to words  in pre-kindergarten and then in kindergarten they're learning to put words together using letters and then once they get the words together they're now trying to learn about building sentences and then they form the sentences then they learn about how to make paragraphs and then they learn how to write stories and eventually they get to a point where they can write books so that's the kind of learning curve that's required as a developer and many professionals any technical profession is going to require that kind of effort and you can't give up i mean if it takes a kid to wrap their head around how to write paragraphs about three to four years then what makes you think that you can do it  there is always new things to learn so that process will never end.

I remember when i first started i was weak on my algorithm and data structure knowledge so i wanted to pick up a  data structure book and the  data structure that was giving me the hardest time was trees and it is a complicated data structure and i remember it took me like three months  bashing my head across the screen to get to a point where i could comfortably start coating red black trees. Three months of everyday i was putting in extra time to learn this stuff, it's not like i didn't know how to code but it was it was a struggle.  Some things just take time and this is one of those things you can't give up like three weeks come on six weeks come on six months no it's not time to give up yet you got to keep going at it all right and keep working at it and eventually you will get to a point where you're going to thank yourself because if you give up that's the worst thing you could do for your own for your own psyche. Your brain is going to remind you every  time you try to do some new endeavor it's going to remind you hey you're the guy that gave up last time on  doing that what makes you think that you could do this. Our brain controls us we don't control our brain so you want to make sure you set yourself up to win which means you decide beforehand.

 

 

If you  enjoy the process of coding but you're not a coder yet trust me that's all you really need you just need a little bit of passion and then you need a lot of work, work, work, work repetition, repetition, repetition keep forgetting that's okay just keep at it keep beating at it and eventually you are  get to a point where you are  actually  a master at that given craft and programming is a wonderful craft to be a master in it's a very rewarding field.

 

 

So give yourself a chance if you enjoy what you're doing, keep it doing, you have to work hard to get anywhere in life right! and that's my promise to you if you work really hard and if you keep practicing every single day trust me in a  matter of a short a year you will be a full stack software developer.