I’m a coder myself, university computer engineer. For beginners that feel like giving up, just know it takes a while to get the hang of coding. It’s like a different way of thinking. But one day it will click. You’re not stupid!
I remember this douche bag teacher at university during a demo exam for our intro course to coding (you present your program and code). He literally said to this one girl “Darling, have you even picked the right education?”. Of course she quit 2 months later and went to be a nurse. Which is messed up because she was so smart in math, a course I failed 3 times, but he discouraged her. Plus our intro course was C. Which is probably one of the most unforgiving languages to code in.
Keep going, it’s worth it. I personally did a book called Learn Python The Hard Way before university to learn some coding.
(Not saying health care is for stupid people. But she picked this education for a reason. The industry needs more women. And this guy discouraged her.)
I find myself thinking in whatever language I’m working with. Lately it’s a lot of PHP.
I know of a problem, and I’ll start thinking algorithmically. As far as “seeing” PHP in my mind’s eye and then try to imagine I’m a computer running the code…tweaking as it goes.
It’s fun.
That’s awesome. Yes, I love getting these visions and then trying to make the PC understand what I want and make the vision a reality. Dealing with the limits is the language, the tech etc along the way. And once that programs run, it’s so satisfying.
I have a custom 2 core Stark and Indexgate.
The manifestations are really powerful.
I am in a cushy tech role on over 100K euros a year.
It was a long, hard journey. There were times when i wanted to jump ship but hung in there.
The resilence and focus to never giveup is strong.
The sales page mentions networking. I found this on Reddit
Ran this today. Made myself slow down a bit and re read some instructional material. Starting to understand a language I was worried I wouldn’t be able to figure out.
Further along than I have ever been
Congrats on your success - well done.
Does the Stark/Index Gate combo make you obsessive when working towards a goal?
James, really happy to hear that. I don’t comment much on your posts but I do follow them closely. Keep pushing man - you seem closer to hitting your goals than ever before.
Have both in a custom in QTKS, yes it does in regards to tech if you like the tech. Was solving a complex AI implementation into the cloud and i took a whole 12 hours to solve it without realizing 12 hours have passed because I was so into resolving the problem but on the other hand if you don’t like the tech or what your doing it will be a lot harder to finish.
Does it help with imposter syndrome in general or imposter syndrome specific to coding skills?
yes. speaking from experience with IG.
Tired of feeling like I suck and will never figure this all out or get a good job
That’s why I asked about imposter syndrome
Don’t let it stop you. I have a degree, and been working as a developer for 3 years still feel imposter syndrome. Hoping to deal with it if it’s possible this year, but just saying it’s pretty common in tech.
Thanks for the article, just skimmed through it, but bookmarked for further deep reading. Sounds interesting, even Sheryl of Meta, ex Google, struggled with these feelings and she’s on top.
One thing I’m finding so far is it helps for finding workarounds to problems.
I have a transparent windowing system which has been plagued by anti-aliasing artifacts I had begun trying to solve through mipmaps. Unfortunately this ended up causing problems with transparency and I learned framebuffer objects cannot have mips set 
so my idea of dynamically mipmappinig the buffers in the final renderpass wasn’t going to work. Because your you beaut recursive framebuffer within a framebuffer approach reduces you to no anti-aliasing thanks to lack of mipmaps.
Fortunately I started immediately searching for a solution and I have several to consider this morning. One of them was using a sequence of blitimage and pipeline barrier calls to eventually do post mipmapping by constructing the image without mipmaps then copying the buffer to a mipped image using linear blit and then generating mips. Of course that would be a tradeoff in frame rate so if I can find a solution that lets me avoid the render pass at all, even better! Its still passably efficient if image transitions are handled properly.
Edited to add: One observation I’ve made is that recon on this sub is very specific in nature. I think @James recently mentioned imposter syndrome with regard to coding. What I can distinguish having run this for some time is the difference between the mindset it creates – the type of logical reasoned thinking and technical focus – and the outcomes. The outcomes are dependent on how well you can manage debugging your program, and so recon on this one ends up being more severe when you’re dealing with unfamiliar subject matter, less severe when you can develop a plan which removes the uncertainty from your job.
In my runs of this sub, it was rare to doubt my ability explicitly (imposter syndrome) but common to be surprised or puzzled when intractable problems require more rigor for resolution, because the mindset of being a super-programmer conflicted with the skill development necessary to resolve harder and harder problems. So the sub in a way does push you more than a little gently towards developing a better toolset for debugging to avoid recon.
I hope this makes sense and I’d love to hear other peoples perspectives on how this one has affected your process when resolving bugs.
Had the insight on this one while experiencing a long period of nothing out of the ordinary, other than the last few days of hellish debugging, of realising tonight that as I joked to my housemate “I haven’t been taking my medicine”. The ALCAR supplements, my other aminos and testosterone boosters, and all the other supplements I hadn’t been taking. Been playing this level on hard setting 
Resolving to use those more consistently over the next couple of weeks while I round out the first development cycle.
Definitely remember to take your supps with this one… it helps especially if the debug cycle is problematic
@SaintSovereign Can I run IG solo and still become a successful highly paid programmer? Maybe sooner?