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by dromedariusCase 1376 days ago
The best thing to do is to be frustrated. And I mean it! The first few days of learning any new framework/language/system is to either slog through hours of tutorials and books with only tangential relevance to the task you want to accomplish, or to dive in head first and learn through a faster version of the genetic algorithm. The main loop looks something like this:

Want to do something -> try to do it (through google) -> doesn't work -> read exception -> search exception / stackoverflow -> try fix exception -> probably doesn't work -> eventually find error and underlying cause -> repeat.

As you learn more about the framework and language, the time to complete this loop becomes smaller and you learn more efficiently. However everyone goes through the initial slogging steps of being frustrated and unable to figure things out.