I need some advice regarding frustrations when doing IT stuff.

[RoflKawpter]

Hey guys.

As of late I've been spending the past year of my life in college taking an IT course (web dev, databases, programming, networking, and project management) squished into the span of 2 years.

Now, this is fine and dandy, cause I'm enjoying it, it's interesting to learn this stuff, and all that jazz.

So I figure, okay, maybe I can take it a step further. I start making a website, and I get to the point where I'm working on CSS, and I'm not sure how to do something, and I try and try to figure it out for at least an hour. Everything before that was going relatively smoothly, and then BAM. A small problem crops up, and I try every single way I know to try and fix it and I can't. I get so bloody discouraged, and then I just leave it and give up because I can't figure it out worth a pinch of shit.

In another case, I start up visual studio, and I think "oh cool, maybe I could start trying to make a program that interacts with a database/a game/SOMETHING. So I try and make something simple and it ends up not working, because I don't know of a concept (for example, I couldn't for the life of me do something 3-4 years ago, because I didn't know what inheritance was and didn't even know it was a bloody concept because how in the hell do you search for something like that) that's probably really simple, and I get frustrated, mad, and I give up.

Different with my assignments/coursework where I try my damndest to get something in and get decent marks for it. I guess maybe I don't have motivation to do things in my own time?

I've tried multiple times to try and make games with different engines/frameworks (Slick, LibGDX, and I've explored a little bit SML), and I read tutorials on how to set things up and how to do things, and I do them, and then I figure "How in the hell do I expand upon this" and I try my own way, it doesn't work, I get frustrated and give up.

Seems like a common theme.

I really wish I didn't get frustrated so easily. It's just so maddening where you're all like "yeah, i can do this shit" and you get down to it and it's going really well and you're applying skills you've learned and then BAM you hit a roadblock and you're all "whelp I guess I have to stop now because I've researched this issue/I don't know what to google/Whatever" and it just stops.

It's getting to the point where I've though about just dropping out and trying to find something else that interests me because I obviously can't figure out stupid little shit without getting angry at it.

Not sure what to do, and this is an extremely long post.

tl;dr I get really frustrated when trying to learn IT related things on my own, and I don't know what to do.

[Proclivitas]

It sounds like you're trying to do too much at once.

You should try to take a step back in terms of your workload at school and maybe do part-time schooling. I would also recommend sticking to a single language instead of trying to get into WebDEV, multiple engines, and programming languages because all that's going to happen is you'll end up learning how to write Hello World 20 different ways.

Stick to one thing like web development or C#, C++, ect. I would definitely not recommend trying to make games to start because it will be immensely frustrating to start, especially if you do not have a solid background in programming, in addition to being in school with a full workload.

tl;dr Breathe, Focus on one thing.

[Karmah]

It happens to me when I try to do things that I don't know that much about.
Like me and OpenGL right now.

However I've accepted this, I know that I try to jump into things that other people spend great lengths studying. So whenever I hit these brick walls, I generally end up spending a lot of time using google and stackoverflow.

It's worked for everything so far, however my last problem I've been working on for over a week, and I still haven't fully fixed it.

My advice: Try to chill out. I know what its like when you have a very specific goal in mind and you just can't reach it, but more often then not when I don't calm down I end up making mistakes and missing things.
That being said, it's easier said than done