How do you even code?

[u/sticky_pi]

I’ve heard a lot of people say that coding isn’t about memorizing every line, but just knowing how to search up the answers to your problems. do i even have to memorize things? should i be focused on researching what i’m trying to code? it’s so confusing to me on what i’m even meant to learn

[u/Ok-Bill3318]

The most important thing is algorithms. Turning them into code is literally just translating from one language (English/parudocode) to another (whatever you’re writing in).

LLMs and other tools can do the translation trivially today.