Not sure if my comment is going to help you, but: if you start to feel anxious, you should find a way of getting your focus back. I know that's easy to say, but remeber: you got that job in the first place. To me that means that your employer believes you can be the right guy for this job. Although getting thrown in like that is not a great start in my opinion.
I sometimes end up in somewhat similar situations where I need to implement stuff for customers in an unknown codebase with limited time. I know that there's a lot of pressure in those situations. I try to focus on the tasks. Break them down in smaller tasks if possible. From there I'd start with the simplest tasks and complete that to have some success.
And as Nick Karnik said, debugging is a great way to understand an existing code base.
Thanks! Today went a lot better because of yours and Nick Karniks suggestions. I tried to take my time as much as possible, put my headphones in and went to work, breaking down each line of code. Although it wasn't perfect and I felt that I should have completed more, it was definitely the right step forward.
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Not sure if my comment is going to help you, but: if you start to feel anxious, you should find a way of getting your focus back. I know that's easy to say, but remeber: you got that job in the first place. To me that means that your employer believes you can be the right guy for this job. Although getting thrown in like that is not a great start in my opinion.
I sometimes end up in somewhat similar situations where I need to implement stuff for customers in an unknown codebase with limited time. I know that there's a lot of pressure in those situations. I try to focus on the tasks. Break them down in smaller tasks if possible. From there I'd start with the simplest tasks and complete that to have some success.
And as Nick Karnik said, debugging is a great way to understand an existing code base.
Thanks! Today went a lot better because of yours and Nick Karniks suggestions. I tried to take my time as much as possible, put my headphones in and went to work, breaking down each line of code. Although it wasn't perfect and I felt that I should have completed more, it was definitely the right step forward.