My First Wall

As any experience programmer will tell you, you will hit a wall when coding, it happens pretty regularly. Well, I hit my first wall last night, and I learned some new lessons because of it.

I have talked about being at Lambda School, and as such there are assessments. I hit a question on one yesterday, and after around an hour of fighting with the question was ready to break my keyboard and quit. That was how frustrating it was.

Lesson One: Words.
In the real world people are going to assign you tasks, and the language used will not always be the best way to describe the task. This problem that I am referring to was not hard per say, it was simply worded in such a way that it broke my brain. You see in addition to Lambda I have been busting tail to stay ahead of the curriculum, and learn everything I can, I am actually about a week away from being about a month ahead, and I fully intend to keep it that way for as long as is humanly possible.

Lesson Two: Ask.
One of the things that many of us struggle with, me 1000% included, is asking for help. Lambda is cool in that if you get stuck you can reach out. I after legitimately was ready to just log off and withdraw. Luckily, I have a wife that has more faith in my skills than I do that wouldn’t let me even if I really wanted to, and to be completely honest I don’t want to. I want to get the skills, and progress into a better career. Long story short, I got one bit of help in the form of: “did you consider using ‘X’ method…” Um, yes… Like an hour ago when I…