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Learning Goal Day #1 12/12/17

Just finished two Pomodoros of working through Chris Pine’s book “Learn to Program.” I am currently on the exercises from chapter 7 and finding them really challenging. I can write pseudocode for the general idea, but I am having a hard time producing a program that works. 

When I run through the solutions at the back of the book, I totally understand them. I’ve been typing the code up myself and writing line by line commentary, which has really helped me through understanding “while” loops. I think this method is helping a lot, but I can’t help worrying that I’m not doing a good job if I can’t generate the code myself. Maybe I will have to go back through all the exercises when I finish the book and write the code over again.

I am going to focus on the fact that I am doing the working and striving to increase my understanding. Must give up on the myth of “born genius.” Learning a skill takes small, consistent steps.