Opening a door into coding

In my current journey into programming at many points I’ve felt overwhelmed due to the sheer quantity of information, languages, frameworks etc. Currently as a bootcamp student we are diving into the world of full-stack development using Ruby on Rails as the back-end and eventually JavaScript with React and Redux for the front-end.

As I began to feel comfortable with Rails I started to understand that what we have been learning at this point is not going to be how an actual web application works. So after feeling comfortable with the MVC that Rails so heavily rellies on I opened a door to the deeper part of rails and was greeted with a room filled with new doors. Each door is a part of Rails I have yet to even start to grasp. This was hard to acknowledge after investing long hours into understanding one concept to be rewarded with the feeling that there is so much yet to understand.

This cycle is sort of endless in the world of Software Development you feel comfortable with one tool or skillset, so you open a door, and you are greeted to this room filled with doors each of which send you to a new room with thousands of doors.

This is feeling is something I believe any developer either self-taught, bootcamp grad, or maybe even a person with a CS degree must come to terms with since new technology is ever evolving, either new frameworks are popping up, or new version updates and even new languages. It is the nature of the field we are in and we must feel comfortable feeling uncomfortable.