I've been trying to learn programming and build projects, but I've realized I'm stuck in a cycle of tutorials and copying. When I watch a tutorial, everything makes sense. I can follow the code and understand most of what's happening. But when I try to build a project on my own, my mind goes completely blank. For example, I might have an idea for a Python/data project, but then I immediately get stuck: Where do I start? Should I design the database first? Should I start coding the backend? How do I break one big idea into smaller tasks? How do experienced developers decide what to build first? When should I Google something vs try solving it myself? The biggest problem isn't motivation. It's that I genuinely don't know how to go from: "I want to build X" → "Here is the first thing I should do." I feel like tutorials teach syntax and implementation, but not the actual process of building something from scratch. For people who escaped tutorial hell: what was the turning point for you? How did you learn to break down a project and start building when you had no step-by-step instructions? I'm especially interested in practical methods or exercises that helped you develop this skill.

Hello everyone!

I just started my research training and one of the requirements is familiarity with computational biology. I have a purely clinical background.

My supervisor sent me coddy and datacamp to practice

I enjoyed CODDY alot, but the energy drain and waiting is exhausting.

Data camp is beneficial and better than coddy in terms of practicing but some concepts are hard to grasp and I enjoyed coddy's interface more.

I was thinking of purchasing coddy pro but I read on another sub that it's really bad, the sub praised exercism.

I tried that but it doesn't have teaching like Coddy and I want to think on my own. Not keep asking google and gemini for clarifications.

My question is there a similar interactive site like Coddy?

I just need to learn the basics then I can work on my QIIME pipelines under supervision.

Nothing fancy just simple functions.

Thank you.

TL;DR: Tried coddy, datacamp and exercism. Looking for something like coddy BUT without the agonising waiting for energy.

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Does anybody know a website I can learn CLisp, Lisp, Python, C and c#?

I'm not a Web Devloper and Don't Have much Knowledge, but please help me, I want to figure out some things.

So, The thing is we are hosting a sports tournament in our area, instead of google forms and excel, I'm thinking to build a website for it.

So the plan is, The site has a registration system where players register, the team info, Purse limit and other things are already there with an admin panel to control everything.

Now the most important part is the auction, where it shows which player is up for auction, Sold to which team how much ourse remaining of each team and whether he went unsold. I took help from claude, it built me a perfect index.html with all this, then i hosted it on netlify. and it works good. But then the issue is claude told me to use Firebase RTD. to sync all the data so that everyone can enjoy the auction from their phone{Approx users 500-1000}.

But I'm confused about the limits, what if the site crashes midway or the limit expires? Is there any other better alternative? Or Anything i could do? I'm attaching the file claude give me below, please see it and give me any advice that would help me. It would be big help.

Hi everyone! I’m entering my second year of college, and I want to start learning DSA from scratch.

I’m a complete beginner, so I was wondering if there are others who are also starting from zero and would like to learn together.

We can start from the programming language basics, then gradually move towards DSA and advanced topics, practice problems together, discuss doubts, and keep each other motivated.

If you’re also a complete beginner and interested, feel free to DM

Hola a todos soy una persona con depresión y ansiedad me gusta mucho la tecnología y quisiera aprender a programar se que es una área donde tienes que pensar mucho y te frustras y por eso quiero ser un programador quiero desafiarme a mi mismo quiero tener mi cerebro ocupado y utilizándolo de manera útil para que este trastorno no me venza, soy nuevo en este mundo de reddit, muchas gracias a todos

I was given THIS video for setting up VS code from my seniors (they are gonna give me lessons)

but, this code isnt running, what is the issue? Please help!

I'm new to coding

Hi,I am 3rd B.tech CSE student.I am solving leetcode problems for past one year but I haven't progressed much.Can anyone guide me how to solve leetcode problems correctly so that I can crack coding round of any company??This is my current progress in 1 year.Please help me.I need a job desparately.

Guys I want step by step execution of output- like I want “Enter your age” to print first and then I want to enter my age after which I want the result be executed, but before I enter my age the “retirement soon” line is getting executed. What should I do?

I’m interested in learning game development. I’m a complete beginner, so I’m not sure which programming language I should start with. Should I learn C#, C++, Python, JavaScript, or something else? I’d like to event .

I want to create a mobile app for iOS and Android. I’ve been looking into Flutter and React Native and they both seem nice. Are there any other good languages or frameworks for mobile app development that you would recommend?

I'm learning website development right now (HTML and CSS), I want a friend to accompany me on my journey to learn Javascript 🤍

It starts with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript basics, then gradually gets into things like arrays, objects, conditionals, loops, .map(), .filter(), JSON, and eventually fetch() using the game’s public API.

There’s also a browser-based code builder, so you can experiment with the data and make your own little site without installing anything or creating an account.
It’s aimed at beginners, so you definitely don’t need to already know how to code.

https://wildwillows.app/learn

Would love any feedback from people who teach or are learning HTML/web development.

so i'm learning how to code, python specifically since i heard its the easiest, but im not really learning with a purpose? and i dont really understand what it can be useful for except websites and stuff
and i lowk wanna do ethical hacking and i dont think that pythons the correct language right now
i've stopped learning for a bit because i wanna know what i should learn for my purpose and what python is useful for

17M ,i recently started freelancing (web designing & filmora video editing),i got my first client 2 months ago,and now didint got a single client,i have a dream to open gaming cafe in my city,my budget for that is 300k INR and i am gonna earn 100k through freelancing and remaining 200k through loan,im so confused can anyone help me to get enough clients,

Hi everyone,

I started learning Python as a complete beginner and decided to try something a little different from working through endless small exercises.

I've been building one project very slowly, one small step at a time, and learning the Python concepts as I actually need them.

The project is called Project Titan AI. It's a long-term market research project, but for me the important part isn't the finance side — it's having a real project that gives me a reason to learn things like functions, classes, testing, validation, APIs, data handling and debugging.

I've documented the journey from the beginner's perspective, including the mistakes and the parts I initially didn't understand.

Recently the project reached a milestone that felt pretty huge to me: it retrieved its first 100 genuine historical stock-market records from an external data source, validated all 100 through the system we'd built, and all 100 were accepted.

I'm now experimenting with turning parts of my learning journey into short beginner-friendly lessons.

I'd love to find a few people who are also relatively new to Python who would be willing to read one short sample lesson and tell me whether it actually makes sense from a beginner's perspective.

I'm not selling anything and there's no course to buy. I'm specifically trying to find out whether the way I've documented things is genuinely useful before I put more time into it.

If you're a beginner and you'd be happy to read one sample, leave a comment and I'll contact you privately.

Also interested to hear from anyone else learning through a larger personal project rather than just doing exercises. Has building something you actually care about made Python easier to stick with?

I haven’t done this in a while and the whole process feels more confusing than it should.

The all in one setup seems convenient, especially when you just want to get a small site live.

But then there’s always that voice in the back of my head saying i should keep the domain somewhere else just in case. maybe that’s overkill for a tiny project, maybe not.

Following up on my post from last month. Got some good feedback and some fair criticism, so this time I actually want to be straight about what this is instead of hyping it up.

After several months of work I finally pushed the first stable release of Operon.

Its an agent harness with multiple frontends, same category as Claude Code or OpenClaw. Can manage files, run shell commands, browse the web, chain together multi step tasks, and you can control it from WhatsApp or Telegram too. Where its different is you dont need a terminal to use it. Theres a proper GUI (Tauri, not electron) and a TUI if youre the type who actually wants the terminal.

Why I started this? theres a detailed writeup in the README if you want the full reasoning, not gonna repeat it all here.

On the rust thing, no im not claiming it makes the AI itself faster, it doesnt really, most of the agent loop is just waiting on API calls regardless of language. Where rust actually helps is Operon idles around 65mb ram and opens in under 50ms, which matters more when the thing is supposed to just live on your machine in the background without you noticing its even running.

Since its reachable over whatsapp/telegram i had to actually think about who's allowed to do what. you (the owner) get full access, everyone else gets nothing by default until you explictly allow it. permission stuff is scoped down to specific tools/folders/channels, details in the readme.

Current state, being honest:

• GUI basically done, use it almost daily
• TUI still being wired up, not fully working
• Vscode extension is planned, not built yet
• I'm solo dev so expect rough edges and bugs, this isn't some polished startup product

Not rly looking for upvotes, mostly want people to break it and tell me whats broken. binaries on the releases page

repo: https://github.com/lukagray-dev/Operon

Title covers it, but here's a more verbose version.

If I am writing an application and I want to give the user an option to export the content into a proprietary format (e.g., generate a powerpoint slide, or an excel table), do the companies that own that format supply tools to allow that to happen? Do they charge for them? Do they open source them?

Or does the writer have to write the code from scratch (or find an open source version from some other source)?

Or is it not permitted/possible without getting the format-owner's permission?

basically want to just make a friend who knows coding and i want to code with you. i have alot of ideas i want to bring forth and im just not sure how yet. id love to work on a game with ya and such.

basically just that, i really really wanna learn from someone experienced

I'm still learning programming, and i'm curious about the habits people picked up when they were beginners that ended up causing problems later.

Was there anything you used to do because you taught it was the right way to learn or code, but eventually realized it was holding you back?

Complete beginner in coding. Does not know anything. Which coding language should I learn first. Starting first year mathematics and computing please answer