5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Learning To Code

5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Learning To Code

Learning to code is just as hard as any other skill you would have set out to learn. Learning anything new is bound to be hard. Some people might adapt to the coding world faster than others but go at your own pace. In this article, I will share five things to be aware of before starting your journey or even if you have already started your journey.

  1. It’s not traditional learning — You might be coming from a background where memorizing information is the best way to get things done. For example, in biology, you would most definitely not want to be unsure about anything there, but in coding, the most important thing is to understand syntax. You don’t need to memorize them. You can google that syntax later
  2. Learning never stops — Getting into programming and learning a language and a framework is not the end of the road because most likely you won’t be learning that language but it will be a foundation for learning a new framework, as that framework will eventually be replaced. So if you are getting into the world of programming, be prepared to constantly learn new stuff, but the best thing to do is focus most of your time on the basics. As those will rarely change
  3. Not having a roadmap — Just jumping into programming and not having a structured path for learning will slow down your progress drastically. There is not much point in learning 10 different things at one time, and even worse, they are not even related to each. Make up your mind if you want to learn frontend development or mobile development or whatever that may float your boat and google a roadmap for learning it
  4. You need to play the consistency game — Don’t get one morning and say your game learn to code by sitting for 24 hours and think your gonna become a programmer that way, your only more likely to run into some health issue that way, the better way to do things is spread out your learning over a period of time. You can go for like three hours a day. You can scale it down to an hour a day, but the whole point is to stay consistent.
  5. Failing into tutorial hell — So you have reached the point where you have been coding for some time now, but you can’t even build a simple project on your own. If you have to try to build a simple project on your own and still fail to accomplish it; the best thing I think you can do is to watch a tutorial on a project, don’t code along but after watching the tutorial, try to recode that project on your own.

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