Why Learning to Code is So Damn Hard!
Today I stumbled upon an interesting chart while browsing through Quora posts. This brought me to the following page that seems to be the originating post with the full story behind this. http://www.vikingcodeschool.com/posts/why-learning-to-code-is-so-damn-hard It is talking about the stages of a programmer's learning journey to when he becomes industry-ready and lands himself a job.The confidence versus actual competency charted into a curve. In the course of the article, I was introduced to 2 more graphs which represented the scarcity of resources available online, and the scope of knowledge that needs to be acquired at the various learning stages. Finally, the the completed graph (which is all 3 graphs combined) looks something like this: Something in the article resonated with me. I have found myself to be in a learning situation for a quite a few things in my careers (CG, VFX, scripting/coding, composing, audio engineering). I see a similar pattern in my le...