Programming progress is different for every individual.

Some people move so fast between learning the fundamentals to writing actual projects. While some take longer to cross the beginner bridge to the actual developer face. But they all eventually arrive at the same destination: becoming successful developers.

But why do some people feel like they suck at programming and end up feeling like coding is hard?

I look at the three major reasons in this article.

Quickly become wealthy

You came in with the goal of becoming wealthy quickly. You've probably heard or read somewhere that programming pays well. Or perhaps you simply Googled "which careers pay the most," and programming came up, and you exclaimed, "Hooray!" The gold of the pirates was discovered.

You haven't landed that six-figure salary you read about in those bait article titles or YouTube videos months later. Well, I'm here to hammer home the disappointment.

Programming isn't exactly a get-rich-quick scheme.

Work is required, just as it is in any other field of study. Write code after code after code.

It’s a continuous process.

Stop reading that article about how Zuckerberg wrote a single line of code in his room and built a billion-dollar Facebook empire in a day.

Instead, read articles that takes you through the four geeks, who started working on the Facebook thought process in their early days in college.

"[…] by the time that I got around to building Facebook I did it in two weeks, not because it was any kind of feat—it was actually a mess—but because I built up so much stuff and so many tools on my own before that I could just throw the whole thing together pretty quickly." Zuckerberg said at the 2009 Startup School.

It's worth noting that he had everything before putting the final product together.

Have faith in the process. Eventually, your consistency will begin to attract that fat check.

Learn in two weeks, thirty days, and three months.

Why are you putting so much pressure on yourself?

Why?

Putting unrealistic deadlines on how quickly you will learn coding is a surefire way to fail your programming journey.

There’s no end to the learning process.

Every day, new inventions and languages are added to the existing languages.

For example, JavaScript is a huge language. Anyone who claims to have learned everything there is to know about it is lying to you. Or, for that matter, any other programming language.

So, don't go into programming with a deadline in mind, especially if it's a tight one.

You are doomed to fail!

Then you'll start to believe you're bad at coding because you didn't finish in the timeframe you set for yourself, which isn't the case.

Allow yourself plenty of time to learn to code. Take pleasure in the process. If you write one line of code every day and leave when your mind and body are fresh, you are much more likely to succeed. You act as if you haven't done anything. After that, you write a bunch of lines of code, leaving your brain exhausted.

Because they enjoy what they're doing, successful people achieve results.

Lack of practice

You can't master something unless you spend enough time trying to understand it.

What do you make of it?

By engaging in the activity itself.

Don't just read and watch tutorials without attempting to replicate the trainer's actions. This is how I am learning as a self-taught developer.

There is no better way to remember what you've learned and keep it permanently etched in your mind than to write it down.

Every day, you must practice coding.

Make a single line. Just to keep your mind up to date. As a beginner, it is critical to do so.

If you're a beginner like me and not a seasoned programmer, you should code every day. This will help you remember what you've already learned.

Failure is the result of a lack of practice.

I'm giving up.

So you've completed a 30-day coding bootcamp, learned how to code, and are now ready to turn your idea into a project. Then something unexpected happened.

You come across a bug.

You spend days looking for it. You come across another after successfully locating it. The bugs haven't gone away. You run into problems, and your fantastic project isn't turning out the way you planned.

"I'm not cut out for coding." Finally, you say.

And with that, you've thrown in the towel. At this point, you're convinced that coding isn't for you.

When you're having trouble debugging your code or figuring out how to do something, step away from it for a while and come back with a fresh perspective. Look it up on the internet. Inquire on various coding channels that assist programmers. We have a large number. To name a few, there's Slack, Stackoverflow, and Twitter. Share your code on GitHub so that others can see it.

Don't give up

If you want to make it in the tech industry, patience is a virtue you'll need. If you lack this virtue, work on it before embarking on a software development journey.

If Edison had given up, we would not have had a light bulb. So don't let the bugs get the better of you and force you out of tech.

Continue to work on the code.

Trying to accomplish too much at once You'd like to learn Python, Docker, Cybersecurity, and Cloud all at once?

No. Each thing should be learned on its own.

Even machines have to be programmed one at a time. Why would you want to grasp everything at once, if you're the one feeding the machine the code?

When you try to do too much, you end up doing nothing.

I have yet to meet a successful developer who says, "I learned to code this language in two weeks," without adding, "but I had prior knowledge of the language's fundamentals."

If you do, please leave their name in the comments section. I enjoy reading senior developer stories.

If you're a beginner like me, let me know if you've experienced self-doubt along the way. 😃

I'd like to know if you're a senior developer. Do you code on a daily basis? If not, when did you come to a stop?