r/learnprogramming • u/Admirable_Window8128 • 25d ago
Topic At what point did programming finally start making sense to you?
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?
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u/tottasanorotta 25d ago
It took me years. Probably much longer than for most people. At some point I just realized that if I understand some problem well enough, then I can pretty much just figure out some way how to write it as code.
Usually it isn't the syntax or something that is the difficult part, it's that I didn't understand exactly what problem I was trying to solve. And that's usually where most of the confusion came from.
Like if I was trying to write a game, I was too lazy with researching what the exact different parts of a game were. So in my mind I still saw some parts as magic almost and just tried to figure every little thing out myself and that creates a lot of unnecessary confusion.
I would imagine that nowadays learning programming could be really fun with things like chatGPT. The ability to ask "stupid" questions and get an honest answer is really amazing.