https://lanie.work/tags/education/ Recent content in Education on Lanie: Faith, Tech, and Advocacy Hugo en-us Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lanie.work/technology/learning-enough-to-change-direction/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lanie.work/technology/learning-enough-to-change-direction/ <p>For the past several months, I&rsquo;ve been studying backend development through Boot.dev.</p> <p>I learned a lot. I finished Python, Linux, Git, object-oriented programming, functional programming, and multiple projects. I made real progress.</p> <p>I also hit a point where something became hard to ignore.</p> <p>The farther I got, the more coding felt like trying to think through a blanket woven from executive dysfunction, fatigue, and brain fog. The concepts often made sense. The problem was holding enough moving pieces in my head long enough to translate them into working code.</p>