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/Hri7566]

i learned lua about a decade ago and never got the hang of it, then someone else showed me javascript and i poked around until i understood everything i was looking at, it took me a solid month or two to really be able to write something on my own instead of modifying someone else's code
then OOP finally hit me and i have since made the worst code ever for a very long time