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Ask HN:Why did I fail to learn web development?

I spent around 3 months of full dedication to learn this skill(I've 4 years computer engineering degree that taught CS as well) as it's very lucrative job with very high celiling of pay in my region. But it wasn't just for me. People might say "just 3 months", "spend another 1 year". If I was improving time by time, maybe...maybe..But I wasn't improving at all. AT ALL once it came to react.(I learnt html,css,js earlier than that).

I had access to all the world's best teachers(udemy, youtube, blogs), I even have access to various QNA and forum sites that many learners don't even know of. Still...Nothing could help me because it was just not for me, just not for me...

What did I lack? I really don't know, I want to know it bad. When I see react and they start changing stuffs in 5 different files while using useEffect or useState hooks, I literally don't understand wth are they even doing. Like what are they changing.

By now, I'm sure I can never carve a decent looking site using css(which is very important, no matter how much people in comments might lie to me to make me feel good). I tried to find courses for it, but I failed to find any. I'm sure it's not lack of courses, but lack of my own IQ to use CSS.

I really want to know why did I fail to learn web development?

16 points shivajikobardan 3 years ago 29 comments

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