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Matheus 🇧🇷

Hello Naresh!
We are both new to the code and with the same background, I am also a civil engineer, a little younger than you: D.

I'm learning every day too, I've done 100 days of code, but I feel very alone and unmotivated and, somehow, I stopped doing it. Now I'm going to try to start over, just to see what I can do on the last day of the year. What I learned from my first failure was that trying to learn everything at once ended up causing me a mental breakdown.

And for doubts, every day: D, not about what I can learn by being self-taught (because I'm also trying to learn Korean, and that's okay), but the burden of not having IT experience sometimes makes me feel like I'm just losing my free time.

For your first website, it's really amazing, I hope I can do something like that on my new journey.

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Naresh Poonia

Hello Matheus!

I'd suggest trying to find a mentor, I couldn't have done this with my mentor, who also happens to be a very good friend, freeCodeCamp's discord server helped too, so did the freeCodeCamp forum & Facebook page. All of this helped me to feel alone or unmotivated

I give just an hour to coding, but I can totally understand the breakdown phase since I have a non-coding job & sometimes there's too much work at the office that one hour of coding means one hour of less sleep but as I mentioned in the post it was also a result of my poor time management, keep a check on your time if you are managing it well or not.

I'm glad you liked the website, there are still a couple of issues on the website which I am yet to fix, but i am happy with the initial product too. You can definitely do something like this, even better.
Just keep on it. All the best :)