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> If someone says they get overwhelmed by something, chances are decent there is something overwhelming about it.

The numbers speak for themselves. I don't need to convince you. There are more web developers than in any other programming field. So it must have some property that makes it easy to get started or at least some kind of incentive to make people go through the initial hurdle.

Anything worth studying is slightly overwhelming at first, but to say that everything continues to be overwhelming once you know the basics is wrong. Knowing a little bit of the grammar and some words will help you understand better Mandarine. Not knowing anything about the language will make it appear as some alien technology.

No skill starts growing at the middle. Nobody teaches mathematics by starting with abstract concepts. We don't learn new spoken languages by studying literature from the get-go. So getting the pedagogics right is part of the success.