Programming requires alot of drive, and dedication to get to the point where you know what you are doing and are exceptional at doing what you know.

For you to truly succeed, programming has to become a way of life; rather than a desired profession. It needs to grow into an obsession that starts at the resistor and extends to the entire network that comprises the internet.

Personally, I recommend you stick with it because I personally struggled alot too. I wasnt able to really start thinking like a programmer until about a year and a few months after I started studying computer science full time (often 12+ hours a day).

I spent the entire time just studying everything I could comprehend on the internet related to computers. I used the complexity of programming to make me even more stubborn and motivated everytime I was overwhelmed. I spent alot of time just reading other peoples code and manually typing it in myself. Whenever I found something I didnt understand, I looked it up. Everyday, diving deeper and deeper into my forced fascination and obsession. (I even started having programming dreams where I was communicating with programs via binary, Too deep! Lmao)

It wasnt always easy. I definitely felt like I wasnt cut out for it ALL THE TIME, but one day I was able to just jack-in and start coding like crazy. It just started to make more and more sense to me, with every line I imagined. It all started coming together to the point where I could go back and rewrite my code way more optimal and effcient only a few hours later.

After that I never doubted if I was capable of becoming a programmer. You have to really want it. There isnt many people who have the required dedication to overcome the tempest that is required to evolve into a computer scientist.

However, When you actually get to the point where you can build complicated software systems that was born from your creativity and ingenuity, the reward of accomplishment you feel far exceeds the struggle you had to go through to reach success.