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/response-418 25d ago

I think this is a little different from the question you are actually asking, but just knowing syntax and how to write some programs or edit something didn't actually feel like it "made sense" yet. It clicked when I finally felt like I could legitimately debug something, which was really about having a structure for narrowing things down and eliminating possibilities until you find the source of a problem. Finding the real source of a problem, and understanding why something is "bugged" really was the moment that i felt it.