[BehindBlueEyes]

As a newbie, looking to learn front end (and programming in general) without a programming background nor related career goals, I actually feel like this is gold. One of the hardest things when learning is that you don't know what you don't know. That's where this is so useful:

- I can easily see areas where I feel comfortable, and identify concepts I've at least heard of before. I can put them in context to learn more about them. For example, I learnt SASS but didn't know about css preprocessors.

- Where I identify gaps in my knowledge, it gives me the keywords to start digging deeper.

I do get imposter syndrome, but it is usually triggered by uncertainty and unclear expectations etc. This actually helps by giving me a more objective way to assess my skills - or lack thereof.

Also, I find actual beginner ressources particularly unhelpful. It's always the same: a painstaking slow build up from "hello world" to substractions, which I can't skip because I'll miss one thing that's critical to understand the specific tool/language/framework but doesn't teach me any new concepts... and then suddenly! arrays, realistic physics, Documentation that just lists functions with 50 parameters and assumes you'll guess the correct syntax... This at least gives me choices where I feel like I can pick an achievable next step...