Lack of Consistency throughout the Entire Learning Journey
Another difficulty that is often faced by self-taught programmers is maintaining consistency from beginning to end. Generally, we all start to learn anything new with great enthusiasm and consistency but as time passes we somehow start to lose interest which leads us to make some unnecessary breaks in the learning process. And, particularly in the programming domain, you can’t afford this irregular learning approach to become a proficient programmer. Though, if you’re really found yourself not in the mood to learn any concept or topic on a particular day – you can opt for revising previous concepts and also recommended solving the practice problems on w3wiki, etc. to not break the ongoing learning rhythm.
What Difficulties are Faced by Self-Taught Programmers?
Many times, we’ve seen experts saying that Self-Taught Programming is inarguably the best way to master programming skills. Even as per the reports, more than half of the programmers across the world consider themselves a self-taught programmer. Besides, for a minute let’s forget about expert sayings & reports and just take a glance at the benefits of going with a self-taught programming approach:
- You become your own master and can pace your learning journey at your convenience.
- In the self-taught approach, you come across and learn several additional skills or concepts as well.
- By the time you become a self-taught programmer, you really have a good portfolio of projects that subsequently help you with your future career prospects.
Isn’t the path of being a self-taught programmer quite worth it…??
But as they said, there is no rose without thorns – this enticing journey of self-taught programming also comes up with several unwanted difficulties or challenges for individuals.
Before moving further, firstly you need to make it clear in your mind that being a self-taught programmer never implies that you can’t follow any instructors or attend any training programs but what it actually means is that in the self-learning path you don’t need to solely depend on anyone for enhancing your programming skills instead you’re required to take your own responsibility and elevate your learning graph through any way such as books, tutorials, lectures, training sessions, or any other. Also, you’re expected to have a lot of patience as you can’t expect yourself to excel in programming within a few days or weeks.
Needless to say, the path of being a self-taught programmer is not quite straight and a newbie has to face many uncertainties and difficulties in this journey to become a proficient programmer. And, in a similar context, let’s take a look at several most common and much-discussed difficulties faced by Self-Taught Programmers: