My coworker said coding is just typing, and that line has been bugging me all week
She meant it as a joke at lunch on Tuesday, but it made me realize how many beginners quit in month one because they think watching tutorials counts as practice. Typing bad code and fixing it beats reading 10 articles about perfect code, so if you are stuck, build something small today and break it on purpose to see what happens. What was the first thing you actually typed that made a lesson click?