# New and overwhelmed!

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-and-overwhelmed/80686>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [May 7, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-and-overwhelmed/80686 "2022-05-07T23:23:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![skypuppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@skypuppy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/skypuppy)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-and-overwhelmed/80686/1 "2022-05-07T23:23:33Z")

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I’ve only been programming since 1977, and have learned several computer languages over the [task lists]. 🙂  
The more I study Julia, to begin writing code in it, the more and more complex (meaning capability!) it gets! Wow. And I’m only in the “See Spot Run” stage! Yes, I have written many simple and quite complex programs over the ages… My favorite language is “C” esp with embedded equipment and Arduino’s and such, but I also positively reveled in the ZIM DBMS language which used relational calculus (but it’s dead now )  
rather than (difficult) relational algebra like SQL and it’s ilk. First DBMS was dBase back in the late 70’s if anyone remembers that.  
Read a couple Julia books, one a primer and the other a “high performance in Julia” topic.

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**Author:** ![Lilith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lilith/32/27492_2.png) [@Lilith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Lilith)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2022, 11:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-and-overwhelmed/80686/2 "2022-05-07T23:50:30Z")

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Welcome!

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**Author:** ![skypuppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@skypuppy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/skypuppy)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2022, 11:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-and-overwhelmed/80686/3 "2022-05-07T23:57:12Z")

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Thanks!

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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-and-overwhelmed/80686/4 "2022-05-08T00:09:50Z")

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Been there myself. I was weaned on FORTRAN IV. ☹ Julia may seem complex, but I never found programming so easy in other languages (C, Fortran, Ada, Pascal, C++, Matlab, …). I’m sure you will have a blast, and there is nothing like this forum to help you if and when you happen to feel overwhelmed.

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**Author:** ![skypuppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@skypuppy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/skypuppy)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-and-overwhelmed/80686/5 "2022-05-08T00:24:02Z")

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It’s like building a skyscraper. The Julia primitives all look so simple and direct, Take this command, place it right there, and voila. You’ve just added a girder and you feel good and satisfied. That is, until you look down and see the 107 floors that you’re standing on to get this far.  
That is the image I see when trying to construct an algorithm in Julia and am still on the very first line of the program  
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**Author:** ![CameronBieganek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cameronbieganek/32/6915_2.png) [@CameronBieganek](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/CameronBieganek)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2022, 2:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-and-overwhelmed/80686/6 "2022-05-08T02:47:35Z")

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Don’t hesitate to ask questions here on the forum. Of course it’s easiest for us to help with specific questions with code examples. 🙂