it's okay to suck at something

Mon, 11 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0500

for a brief period i taught web development to young students — not formally, just someone who’d figured out enough to point others in a direction. one of them asked me once: sir, i love programming, but i suck at it. what should i do?

when i first wrote html, i used notepad. saved the file, tried to open it in a browser, it opened in notepad again. tried again. same thing. i couldn’t figure out what was happening. eventually i gave up for a few weeks until a different tutorial mentioned, almost as an aside, that you have to save it as .html and not .txt. that was it. that was the whole problem.

Programming on maavuz

it's okay to suck at something