The Curse of Courses

This afternoon I found myself considering buying another programming course.

I've been guilty of buying quite a few.

But this one - this one - was going to be different. I'd learn a new thing, about an existing thing, but in a slightly different way! And it was on an intro sale, so it would be cheap! And... And... And...

I knew that this was the wrong thing to do. I had just finished one course, and instead of diligently applying my learning, I was about to abandon all that and do another one instead. tut tut. I had caught myself just in time, before I reached for the credit card.

The sad part is the last course was very good, and I have learnt a lot - enough to encourage me to swap out some parts of the app I am building for other bits (namely the database) and with AI help, I am making good progress.

But the lure of another course, more learning to add on top of the last, nearly won me over.

Tonight I decided to continue with what I knew and just keep going. I am going to get there in the end, and no part of buying more courses will help me shortcut the necessary grind to embed this information in my brain. I have to work at it.

Like I wrote, only a few short weeks ago, hard things are hard because they are worth doing.

It's either that, or give up together, and the lure of programming itself is enough - I just need to get out of my own way and keep going, keep trying and failing at writing functioning code and avoiding the trap of leaning on AI too much.

I'll get there. more courses aren't the answer.