Ask HN: Did you ever help your SO learn to code? How did you avoid frustration?
She has started and stopped countless tutorials. She has taken part into a mini bootcamp to learn React but we both agree that it was mismatched to her abilities because it assumed more knowledge than she had.
After over a year, she still doesn't have the basics: there is confusion as to what is an object, the difference between a value and a function, how to access an object's values vs an array's, etc.
I am trying to help her with code exercises or interview questions when it includes a coding component but it feels like we're going nowhere: We spent hundreds of hours over time on these and because she doesn't have the basics down, she runs into the same issues over and over and over again.
I get frustrated and tend to be more curt than I'd like, this also makes her frustrated and hinders enthusiasm + progress.
Did you ever help your SO learn how to code? How did you go about it? How did you avoid the frustration and tension?