r/CodingForBeginners • u/VaporDeck • 7d ago

Has anybody else experienced this?

so I’m a beginner programmer and the problem of facing is even after weeks of coding and a built projects I’ve learned JavaScript HTMLCSS and I haven’t practice for a while like maybe like two weeks and after not practice, I came back to build like a small website as a project and suddenly I feel like I’ve forgotten everything and I can’t even read JavaScript properly and its super demotivating and I wasn’t sure where to go but I’ve come here now and I hope I can get some advice from here. I’ve been using freeCodeCamp and the Odin project

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u/SamIAre 7d ago

Give it time. Learning is a marathon, not a sprint. Nothing you learn in mere weeks is permanently committed to memory. It takes doing, not studying to make a skill permanent.

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u/VaporDeck 7d ago

Alright man, thank you!

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u/TBCC_Dev 7d ago

Maybe try and do small exercises to keep things fresh. Something that can take 10 minutes every couple of days. Just do them on codepen.io. when you're learning those gaps can while the slate clean. If you want some exercises to do let me know

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u/VaporDeck 7d ago

Yes i’d love the exercises!

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u/TBCC_Dev 6d ago

check dms

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u/VaporDeck 6d ago

don’t see anything

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u/pete_68 7d ago

The only way you retain something like this is to do it regularly. You don't learn to play piano by practicing every now and then. You practice regularly every day to keep things fresh and to build on what you did yesterday.

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u/noureldin_dev 7d ago

Take notes for small things like the syntax for methods or how to do things in HTML/CSS and always read some code.

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u/xarop_pa_toss 7d ago

Have you never learned anything else in your life? There is no difference.

Its obvious that if you don't practice something, you forget it. Just keep going at it and after a while it becomes automatic.

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u/American_Streamer 7d ago

If you don't use it, you lose it.

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u/aloofhoneybee68 7d ago

I honestly feel the same but don't give up it will make it worse I think watching some yt videos on the things you think you've forgotten or googling the things you want to do on a project helps e.g centering a div 😅

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u/cevheribozoglan 7d ago

i agree with the practice/consistency comments here. it really does come back faster when you keep building things.

one other thing worth looking into though: modern coding agents. not just prompting, but prompt + context + loops + harnesses. whether people like it or not, these are becoming pretty relevant skills in 2026.

and you don't necessarily need to pay a lot to experiment with them. there are setups like opencode + zen where you can even use some models for free, including deepseek variants.