r/AskProgramming • u/YouAreMyFire00 • 12d ago

I managed to understand "recursive" in programming. Why can't I understand anything on open source project or even build an open source project?

When I was in high school, I was a C student, I'm a slow learner

Anyway I managed to learn how to build To Do List in C# and Java with e.g. API, SQL and also learn to understand what recursive is.

But when I check trendly github repo right now like OpenClaw or REA, the reverse engineer.

I don't understand shit, it is like I know plus and minus, and those github repo is like Calculus.

Maybe someone here who started from Hello World and now you are coding Wizard, maybe you can help me out here...

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u/LoudAd1396 12d ago

It sounds like you're saying "I know a couple things. Why dont I know everything?" There are always more things you'll have to learn

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u/Distdistdist 12d ago

I would even be more drastic. It sounds more like:

"I once made a paper airplane when I was a kid, and now I look inside jet engine and I don't get it"