Learning python update: I seem to have crossed some threshhold into "being able to google things"; after asking a lot of people a lot of questions, I now have a vague intuition for how coding kind of "works", which is making it *way* easier to figure things out myself.
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Twice now I've asked other coders a question, they didn't know the answer (despite googling), and then I went away and figured it out on my own. This was *stupidly* satisfying (i'm not any more skilled, just put way more total time into it, but it feels SO empowering)
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the feeling of cracking a problem in coding is really an amazing high, i had no idea how good it would be
Anyway I think I crossed this threshold at around... maybe 15-20 hours of direct focused learning
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(er, to be clear i mean 'direct focused learning' as like asking people fast questions and demanding satisfaction to immediate curiosity to figure out solutions; I spent many more hours on my own "practicing", like fucking around with stuff I already kind of knew)
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When you're a novice and you're not sure if the solution is 5 mins or 5 hours away. Nostalgic.
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googling answers to things effectively is honestly one of the most important skills in programming
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You've made it. You are now indistinguishable from someone with years of experience
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A huge portion of early coding experience revolves around simply learning the *names* of the concepts involved. Once you know that, it becomes much more easily to Google answers and discussions about the specific concepts you're learning.
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This is seriously one of the biggest hurdles. Until you know the right words or phrases to put into the google box, it’s so hard to get answers. As soon as you learn some of the nomenclature it becomes so much easier.
Worth noting this isn’t a beginner phenomenon.
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Knowing what and how to google is half the battle. Also, there’s an obscene amount of $ waiting for whoever figures out how to turn a Google search by a subject matter newbie into the equivalent search of a subject matter pro.
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