Coding skills- talent and hard work

Hi Kush,

I think it is bad practice to think like that. There will always be coders who are more skilful than yourself. You are just a fish in the sea! But even though only one person can be the 'best' coder, that doesn't mean it isn't worth it for the rest of us!

That is like saying "If I can't have the 'best' life than life is not worth it at all."

It is about what we take away from it as individuals. And more importantly, what we can give it!

Mark Zuckerberg gave us Facebook. I wonder what Kush Sharma can give us? :)

Regards, Jordan.

Hi Kush,

how about another point of view? Do you really love programming? - because that's what lets you program (or do any other thing like playing a music instrument) for hours - forgetting everything around you (being "in the state of flow" so to speak), not even noticing the slightest feeling of exhaustion that normally gets to you after so many hours of "work"...

I wrote my first program at age 9 on a Sinclair(Timex) ZX-81 (with the luxurious 16KB extension of course) because I was so completely fascinated by the idea of a machine doing something automatically...

You have to love what you do - at least to be perfect and that's what you where hinting at. If you really do, learning doesn't feel like learning but like fun.

Of course there are always those topics need to know and not so fun to learn (I personally do have some of these too, of course :-) ) but the team at Treehouse does the best job possible for you to study even those topics with ease - and trust me on this as I learned and taught already a lot programming stuff in my live. Android Development has been one of those unpopularly topics for me but as the market of Android devices unfortunately isn't going to shrink any time soon you have to be capable of programming for this system (...at least that's what i told myself). I'd like to quote Ben Jakuben on that matter telling Sam Soffes "Now you can have an informed distaste of it" on twitter. Well that's exactly what I'm starting to feel now working with Android Studio - oh, and btw I do really love this quote Ben Jakuben :-)

But maybe (who knows) I'm going to even like (less dislike) Android by the end of the Track :)

Thats really much to read (never wrote a longer post than this in the forum so far) - so here's my "punchline":

You want to "come at the same level with those guys" you have to love what you do on the very same level and with the very same intensity.

Just my 2c Kind Regards Holger

Hey thanks guys for your thoughts...much appreciated..:)...#inspired #motivated..

There's a lot of "coding" that's outside of traditional computer science.

A lot of frontend work falls into that category. Not to say there isn't hardcore frontend JavaScript but it's a much smaller percentage of JavaScript code written.

So in conclusion there's totally a place in building the web for people who aren't particularly gifted in computer science.

This is a great question. I'll just agree with everything said here and add my own experience:

It just takes time and practice. That time and practice go by so much faster and easier if you enjoy it, even a little bit. I gave up programming when I first started because I didn't like my first class in college and wanted to try other things. But I always liked learning how computers worked, and when I came back to programming I found I learned a lot more the 2nd time through my first book and then really started to enjoy it once I started to understand it.

In my career I've always been impressed by senior developers while also feeling a little dismayed that I might never be that good. But lots of people say all the right buzz words without really knowing what they're doing. Also, everyone who is a good programmer has spent a lot of time getting that way.

It's not an innate talent; it's just a different way of thinking. As soon as you start training your brain to think that way then it starts to make more and more sense.

Hope you get a lot out of it!