Naval architecture student recounts his first month learning to code in Bangladesh

A naval architecture student in Bangladesh describes starting to code in university while classmates were already earning money as freelancers. His first program failed with an indentation error, and it took an entire evening to trace the cause to mixed spaces and tabs. In his second week he built a simple grade calculator, which gave him a sense of achievement despite its limited usefulness. In the third week, seeing classmates' freelance work led him to nearly give up, but adding a small feature to the calculator pulled him back. He says there was no sudden breakthrough in the fourth week, only steady, modest practice.