7 Reasons Beginner Programmers Should Push Through the Pain

Chin up — better days are on the way

Henry Basson
ILLUMINATION-Curated
9 min readJan 6, 2021

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Better days are on the way (Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay)

Learning to code is hard. It’s really hard, especially so if you’re a self-taught programmer with no mentor to help you through the rough patches. You will have moments of elation when you understand a new concept and a new piece of the puzzle slots into place in your mind. But then there is the pain…

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Henry Basson
ILLUMINATION-Curated

Self-taught developer. Writing about tech, programming, and life in general.