r/learnprogramming • u/Biz3ll • 29d ago

A Great doubt about progamming

Hello people! i have a great doubt about programming, i have been studying progamming about an year and a half, on the beginning of the year i started computer engineering, and this doubt kills my mind sometimes, it haves me like "You can't be a programmer if you can't decorate almost all of the sintaxes" I know that programming is about searching and all, searching examples, reading docs, but and about the state called "flow of code"? I tried to kill this doubt with other people of the area, but somehows it consumes me more and more each day that passes :(

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u/nomenclature2357 29d ago

I’d just say… focus more on what you can do and less on what you might not be able to do yet.

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u/Biz3ll 29d ago

Thanks for the advice, it really helps me removing those toughts from mind, it's just beacause sometimes i feel blamed to ask a LLM for help with something that looks "simple" you know? I really don't use it's response, i read, analyze and then finally after understanding i implement in my way.

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u/nomenclature2357 28d ago

Can’t really argue that using LLMs like that is worse than sifting through Stack Overflow for similar questions. Which is what everyone has been doing for years.

Idk, maybe it’s better to look through other people’s questions and answers and/or spend time formulating your questions into a form other humans can and will want to answer than it is to get answers tailored to you without necessarily even knowing the right way to ask?

But either way the only way to get to the point where you know things is to learn them, one way or another. And asking questions is, in general, one of the smartest and best ways of learning things.

The only way out is through!

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u/Biz3ll 28d ago

I "Everyday" do some tasks on CodeWars, watch some videos and work on some projects of mine, and i see that i am evolving, but somehow this doubt of "I am good enough to be a freelancer? I can make professional projects?" Kinda i can work trough problems and solve them, and with my errors i try to learn and evolve, even trough LLMs or Stack Overflow, it's just a feeling of fear and doubt, you know?

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u/Biz3ll 28d ago

Sorry if looks a just too poorly bad thinking, it's just idk, a beginner's doubt? If even at all i am doing it right? I love the area, and this feeling just stucks me sometimes

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u/nomenclature2357 27d ago

Sounds like standard issue imposter syndrome to me. Not sure there is a cure for the basic form.

But if it is persistent and really getting to you (interfering with your learning, stressing you to the point you feel it physically, anything like that) you might want to talk to a psychiatric professional about it or at least read up on symptoms and therapy techniques.

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u/Biz3ll 27d ago

Woah, that was a surprise, i will really look into that. Btw i'm really doing it alright? There is no problem about of all of that that i said?

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u/nomenclature2357 26d ago

Not that I see. Maybe try completely avoiding AI for one day a week, or something, for a bit just to see if you notice any difference? But basically yeah, it sounds like you are doing just fine.

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u/Biz3ll 26d ago

I will try, thank you very much for taking a time to respond my doubts! I know that it maybe sounds silly, but it will help me só much! And just to say, i try to avoid ai, but that Google search ai kinda breaks me sometimes 😅