I really love computer science, coding and mostly all the amazing things you can do with this knowledge, i feel i finally landed in my world.
I’m doing a Javascript course now and while it is really engaging to learn about how a language like that works and how to build with it, i’m getting quite tired and frustrated…
Now, i’d say i am quite meticulous when studying and i use some studying techniques to really integrate what i’m learning, but that means that 1h or even less lesson can take me all the time i have to study in a day to be understood, noted down and then repeated over the following days…
There are a lot of quite complicated concepts to understand and memorize, and, as i’m also working, sometimes it gets quite tiring.
I feel like there’s this huge amount of never ending work and concepts before i can actually start do something cool with the knowledge i have, and i really want to start doing something cool.
I re-started to study after many years so i’d say it’s also because of that if i’m not really used to it and i can’t process much informations at the time.
How can you get better into gaining knowledge? how can you prevent getting fatigued?
Just some feedback from someone who sounds like they may be similar to you in some ways — if you’re talking about SRS / Anki type notes … that’s definitely overkill, for programming.
(And from your description, it sounds like “overkill” is, indeed, killing you.)
You genuinely shouldn’t worry about memorizing programming topics! As a field, we all tend to search up anything we need to know, in real-time, as we run into it; everything from syntax for a programming language we haven’t used in a while, to data-structures we’ve forgotten the details of, even to terminology that’s a bit different than our particular sub-field is using daily.
Mostly, if not almost entirely, the effective way to master “programming” (which, again, is mostly a synthesis of ‘stuff that’s at the front of my brain from working on this current project for a while,’ and ‘everything i can extract from Google on short notice’) … is to just do. And do a lot. Start projects. Get obsessed. Get bored, move on, do another!
tl;dr stop taking notes and just hang your head against code! I swear, it’s genuinely far more effective.
(If it helps you to believe me, some credentials: dev for, idk, more than 15 years; entirely self-taught; have built everything from programming-languages and compilers to mobile apps to massively-distributed systems running across 500,000 CPU cores; I’ve learned, taught, forgot, and then learned again, more languages and frameworks than I can count.
You can do this!)