Programming is really about persistence, focus and dedication. I'm not naturally very intelligent but I am extremely stubborn so I simply keep trying, keep reading, keep googling until I solve the problem.

That describes me perfectly. I feel as if I've taken months to do stuff a normal person would've prototyped in an afternoon and it's all thru sheer stubbornness. I'm hoping I get good enough to be employed but I still have a long way to go.

I second what nightowl_games is saying. I hope you are not equating programming with an ability to crunch through leetcode problems. There is more to programming than that.

There are plenty of companies out there which hire folks without putting them through the leetcode hazing ritual.

Cheers

Thankyou. I certainly hope so. I wouldn't have a hope in hell of passing any of the programming interview questions I see posted.

I'm trying. So far my biggest problem has been not getting interviews because recruiters pretty much slam the phone down the nanosecond they ask me how many years professional experience I have so far and I answer honestly.

I'm trying to get some projects into a usable state so I have a few things to point to and say "well I created this and this", but I'm... I'm not fast at this, at all.

Currently stuck on trying to pass an array of floats from C++ back to C# and getting a bunch of random values and NaNs