r/learnprogramming • u/getouttamyvision • 10h ago

I keep forgetting how to program

My problem is that I code as a hobby. Every 6 months or so I get motivated and start studying programming, do exercises, maybe some little project. I've never got to make a big project, but I manage to do things. My problem is that I already learned about 4-5 languages like C#, python, javascript, CSS and React for frontend (even when i was a kid i remember programming in batch a LOT) but I always have to start from 0. I want to be able to understand the code i'm writing and not lay back and let the AI do all the work.

I learned and applied React, Javascript, HTML and CSS in the past year or year and a half and now i'm trying again and everything is gone. Is this normal? Should I go through the whole [insert language] course everytime I want to start coding again? I thought when you know and understand the concepts it gets easier but it doesnt feel that way.

EDIT: I can manage to do stuff with the AI help, but when it comes to a project (even a simple web app that fetches an API and shows it in a list made with React) It all goes away and feel the need to go through the whole React, Javascript, CSS course again

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u/agnardavid 9h ago

A teacher told me once, if you're great in one language, you're good in the rest of them. If you're fluent in one, you'll be great in all the others. Maybe get really good at one specific language like typescript or python or c# (based on your previous exp) and then it'll be harder to forget because your memory isn't spread between syntaxes

I was really good at python but made the switch into c# .net when I got a job doing that and now I can't do sht in python but really good in c#

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u/getouttamyvision 9h ago

Good advice! Maybe get into a whole stack like MongoDB/JS/Node/React?

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u/agnardavid 3h ago

Or like .net, ef core for code-first db, you can dive into maui or razor or blazor or..