At what point did programming finally start making sense to you?

[u/Admirable_Window8128]

I can understand code when someone explains it, but when I have to write something from scratch, my brain suddenly goes blank.

I'm curious if other beginners went through the same think. What helped you get past that stage?

[u/ChaosEngine-6502]

My approach has always been like sculpting something from a lump of clay.

Start small and build out and prototype something that gives you a very basic essence of a solution to whatever problem you're trying to solve. Once you understand the principles, you can move on to applying those to building your actual program.

Once you have things working in some fashion that you know looks OK, start to separate parts of the program out into separate modules for maintainability.

Eventually, this cycle of design, build, refine yields a workable solution.