What if I’m dumb as hell in reality and I don’t recognize it. I keep holding on to this false belief that I can learn programming, but going nowhere in reality. What if I don’t have any talent at all?

Try something that’s not iOS development, and don’t read about it prior just jump in and build something.

Try desktop software, or cli based tool, build a website, write something in python that can do something useful for you .

I’m building a rss reader at the moment that can handle authentication credentials and insecure SSL certs due to corporate proxies - I hate proxies😔

Based on your other rants you’ve done a lot of theory but not a lot of doing, this is a field of 70% doing, 20% theory and 10% of “fuck this shit”, I think it’s time to start the doing and the fuck this shit part!

Build something you really want to build. If you can, you don't suck and you just have impostor syndrome. If you can't, you know what you need to learn

@C0D4 But I always feel not ready to make things. I feel that even if I made it work it will not be the right approach or optimal and it’s just bad.

@freeme if it works, it’s not wrong 😉

Don’t worry about optimal and best practise, your profile says noob not senior.
Take the victory from having something work regardless of the mess your about to make 😀

@C0D4 even if it’s just putting pieces together without knowing how it works deeply under the hood?

@freeme at first, yes.

Do you need to know how a car is built peice by peice in order to push the accelerator and steer it? - brakes are optional and you’ll learn about those when you need them.😂

@freeme yes. Theres no shame in writing a piece of code without understanding what it does. It's how we all start out. You're being way too hard on yourself.

Start small. Don't worry about projects. Import a library, and write small programs to play around with it. Do that an hour a day, and you will get good. Patience is also important. If you're getting frustrated don't give up, instead just step away from it and return to it a little later.

Best place to start is the standard library. Learn it. Own it. Push yourself but not too hard.

@Hubot-0x58 huh