Honest take, because I wish someone had told me this earlier.
Everything you will read about happened will make it sound more complicated than it is. Here is what 8 years of working with apartheid has actually taught me.
The people who struggle most are the ones who overthink the entry point.
What actually moved the needle for me: I stopped trying to understand everything before starting, and just committed to building one real thing instead of more tutorials. After that, things started moving much faster.
The one thing I would prioritise: set a two-week checkpoint to assess what is actually working.
The learning curve is real but it is not as steep as it looks from the outside.
by bonganizulu6643