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This kinda mirrors advice I would give my younger sibling when he was struggling to pick up programming, even though that is the direction he wanted his career to go. He thought he needed to know everything and saw that as an impossible mountain to climb. My advice to him was to find a small problem he cared about in the world or at home and develop a solution. When it's a problem you care about or want resolved, you are more invested and learning becomes fun. Then you can build on those skills with what ever you find to work on next.



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