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Learning Code Makes Me Feel Incompetent
But I keep adding new languages to my bucket list.
Hi, I’m Alex — a serial starter of wonderful things, and a finisher of precious few.
Earlier this year I started learning to code; I picked up a little HTML and CSS pretty quickly in order to enhance my work with WordPress. But by the time I got to Javascript my brain was shutting down, and I put it on the far backburner — the one I can barely reach.
Fast forward a few months to now, and I’m wishing I’d committed a bit more energy to wrapping my brain around programming languages. I’ve had a pretty good idea for a series of apps that are not that difficult to program — for someone who can actually code.
For me, even the simplest app will take at least a year to make.
I’m trying really hard not to fall into the trap of wanting to outsource it. While there would definitely be benefits to that, I have a few problems with it too:
- I wouldn’t learn anything
- I wouldn’t understand my own product
- I wouldn’t be able to add fixes and features
- They could run off with my ideas
Using a platform like Upwork would certainly reduce the risk of the last one, but with code I feel like that risk still exists because…
