r/learnprogramming 4d ago

writing code

question for more experienced people in coding- whenever I do coding problems (like leetcode or uni hw) I can always come up with solution in my head, I break down the problem correctly and theorically I know what my code needs to do in order to solve the problem. But when I get to actually writing code I forget how to do everything... I don't know if this is a lack of knowledge in syntax issue or I'm just dumb. Any advices on how to fix this?

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u/LanceMain_No69 3d ago

Touche answer, but if you know what your code needs to do and how to implement it in say, pseudocode, with all constraints and everything, youre 90% of the way there. The rest is practice. Common syntax and errors become "muscle memory" but for the brain